One interesting record notes that, for a time, the Egyptians celebrated three of these festivals in a single year. Related: Ancient New Year's scene from Egypt uncovered on roof of 2,200-year-old ...

Little tiny temporary roof over it to keep it as chilled as ... DR JOANN FLETCHER:Now bread was the key ingredient in the ancient Egyptian diet. DR JOANN FLETCHER:'This bread has been made using ...

gabled-roof coffins, traditional Egyptian-style coffins, and almost 30 new papyri in Greek and Demotic (the second to last stage of the Egyptian language). To learn more about this and other new mummy ...

We have an idea of what ordinary ancient Egyptian homes might have looked like because small model houses, known as soul houses, have been discovered in graves. The primary building material was ...