The excerpt from Homer's epic poem features his catalog of ships, a famous passage listing the Greek forces that sailed to ...

Researchers discovered an Iliad fragment in a mummy, marking the first literary papyrus used in embalming and offering new ...

Archaeologists in Poland are finally solving an over 2,000-year-old mummy mystery. After modern warfare erased vital information about the ancient Egyptian child, researchers were unsure about the boy ...

Among the most striking discoveries is the mummy of a man found inside a sarcophagus, described as being 'completely covered ...

CAIRO (AP) — In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on Saturday inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, a ...

Egypt on Saturday was inaugurating the long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum, the world’s largest museum dedicated to an ancient civilization — a megaproject also aimed at boosting the country’s tourism ...

This mechanical dog from Ancient Egypt is one of the cutest finds from the Ancient World.

Researchers found a 3,300-year-old papyrus where an artist used white pigment to slim a jackal figure. The correction appears in a Book of the Dead created for the royal scribe Ramose. Analysis ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte embarked upon a military expedition to Egypt in 1798, he took with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental Description de ...