Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the 4,100-year-old tomb of a highly skilled physician who served the pharaohs of ...

They were unearthed at the causeway of Pharaoh Hatshepsut's funerary temple at Deir al-Bahri on the Nile's West Bank.

At the same time, research on the astronomical knowledge of the ancient Egyptians has shown that its basis of exact and scientific observation has, if anything, been overrated. At the recent ...

“A joint French-Swiss archaeological mission has uncovered the mastaba tomb of a royal physician named ‘Teti Neb Fu’ in the ...

In many ways, everyday life in ancient Egypt was surprisingly modern. Egyptians had a sophisticated education system - for ...

THE calendar of the ancient Egyptians was one of the earliest experiments in calendar making, and it was one of the most enduring. It was still in use at the beginning of the Christian era much as ...

The oldest confirmed case of the plague outside of Eurasia has been detected in an ancient Egyptian mummy. Dating back to around 3,290 years ago, the embalmed remains belong to a male individual ...

Chemical analysis of an ancient Egyptian mug revealed a mixture of psychotropic plants, alcohol and bodily fluids.