Researchers in Egypt have discovered a massive trove of what amount to ancient notepads. The 43,000 ostraca—sherds of broken ...

According to the researchers, the inscriptions’ discovery is not new. Early Egyptologists noticed them, but did not know what ...

The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

While preparing a papyrus for the museum’s upcoming “Made in Ancient Egypt” exhibit, conservators noticed a thick white ...

Over the past two decades, more than 43,000 inscribed shards of pottery known as ostraca have been uncovered in Athribis, ...

The sarcophagi inhabitants’ actual names are unknown, but these “chantresses of Amun” served a god whose cult ran strong even ...

Archaeologists uncover a 4th–6th century Egyptian monastery in Wadi El-Natrun, revealing early Christian life and a rare Greek inscription.

An ancient artist applied a white substance to an illustration of a jackal, slimming down its appearance, according to ...

The 25th Dynasty originated in Nubia, in what is today Sudan, and ruled over ancient Egypt between 744 and 656 BC.

It appears that even the most skilled scribes of ancient Egypt made mistakes. A recent discovery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has revealed that ancient Egyptian artisans used a correction ...