A 5,000-year-old book which was discovered in an Egyptian tomb has been decoded and is said to contain a "horrifying" message ...

The 5,000-year-old manuscript was discovered in an Egyptian tomb and is believed to hold knowledge about the origins of humanity and potentially serve as a prophecy ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a copy of the "Book of the Dead" in an ancient Egyptian cemetery. The document was used by Egyptian priests to guide the dead to the afterlife. Alongside the scroll ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

A piece of the Papyrus of Pasherashakhet, dated roughly to 375 B.C. to 275 B.C., is part of several ancient Egyptian funerary scroll fragments collectively known as the Book of the Dead.

Unlike the typical papyrus scrolls used by ancient Egyptians, this book had pages that resembled a type of treated metal or stone, bound together with an intricate mechanism.

Researchers have sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago — ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Egyptian archaeologists recently found an ancient sword belonging to the military of Ramesses II, the pharaoh that scholars believe was referenced in the Book of Exodus. The Egyptian Ministry of ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...