Ancient Egyptians started embalming their dead about 1,500 years earlier than archaeologists previously realized, according to chemical analysis of the funerary wrappings of a young man who died in ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered several pieces of ancient rock art from more than 3,000 years ago, according to a statement released by the country's Ministry of Antiquities. A joint ...

THE fairy story of the resurrection from the dead of the pre-dynastic kings, and of the bringing back to actuality of the misty kings of the first dynasties at Abydos, still goes on. We seem to be ...

SOME ten years ago, when Lord Cromer was building up a medical school in Cairo, the task of establishing the department of anatomy was entrusted to a junior fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, Dr ...