Egyptian mummies were frequently embalmed using repurposed bits of papyrus with religious texts and other spiritual passages ...

Three thousand years ago, a blind poet sang of heroes fighting in the epic Trojan War. Many centuries later, Roman-era ...

A papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at ...

It took six years of more painstaking digging at the site of Tell el-Farma, in the eastern extremes of Egypt’s Nile Delta, to ...

Talk about buried tea. Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a stash of 3,000-year-old papyrus scrolls — and whatever’s ...

Archaeologists discovered the largest trove of ostraca—inscriptions on broken pottery sherds—ever found, with over 43,000 ...

The latest imaging work on ancient Egyptian remains has brought unusual clarity to mummified body parts that were sealed for ...

The texts span a vast expanse of time. The oldest shards date back to the third century B.C.E., featuring tax receipts penned ...

Black market smugglers vanished with a priceless piece of history—completely unaware of the promise left behind to punish ...

Archaeologists in Poland are finally solving an over 2,000-year-old mummy mystery. After modern warfare erased vital ...

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago. A team of Washington State University-led researchers has ...