New Greek and Roman archaeological discoveries including a funerary building, portraits, mummies, and statues were made in Fayoum, Egypt.

Archaeologists discovered the tomb of an unknown pharaoh from a tumultuous, war-ridden era of ancient Egypt. Now they're ...

A mysterious Egyptian mummy, ‘Bashiri,’ was discovered in 1919 near Luxor, and no one had ever dared to open its contents for ...

The amount of precision and finesse in the mummy's packaging suggests that this individual was a very important figure in ...

The Royal Mint, which has an ongoing “music legends” coin series celebrating singers and songwriters, said the coin features a portrait of Lennon that is based on a famous image taken by music ...

In 2019, while excavating the necropolis of Qubbet el Hawa, across the Nile from Aswan in southern Egypt, Belgian and Spanish archaeologists unearthed a trove of mummified crocodiles: five almost ...

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.

The extraordinary care with which that Bashiri mummy was wrapped suggests this person was also of great importance in ancient Egyptian society. But the identity of the corpse remains unknown ...

Jewelry was an important part of ancient Egyptian culture. Excavation at the Karnak temple found a 2,600-year-old pot filled with gold jewelry, beads, and statues. The statues of Egyptian gods ...

Amidst a difficult year when the royal family overcame the hardships of two cancer diagnoses, Buckingham Palace paused to reflect and celebrate International Women’s Day on Instagram with royal ...

Now, researchers believe they may have identified the only known portrait of the so-called “Nine Days Queen” painted before her death. Following the death of Edward VI in 1553, unscrupulous ...

The oldest preserved icons of St. Catherine’s collection in Sinai date back to the 6th century and are directly related to the Egyptian portraits of the dead in wood (Fayum mummy portraits) and are ...