Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. They ...

From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Canopic jar lid, ceramic, c. 1550-1398 BC. Lids of canopic jars represented the four Sons of Horus. The human head ...

From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Canopic jar lid, limestone, c. 380-342 BC. Lids of canopic jars represented the four Sons of Horus.

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According to Greek legend, goddesses known as Keres watched over battlefields — but they weren't there to protect the ...

A discovery in Egypt has provided an extraordinary glimpse into the ancient art of winemaking. Archaeologists recently ...

These canopic jars, ca. 664-525 B.C., are two of the eight Egyptian artifacts that Joseph E. Lewis II, a Chesterfield businessman and antiquities collector, loaned to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

As a result, much of the work in Egyptology on representations of childhood in ancient Egypt is dominated by evidence for the lives of boys and young adult men.

(CNN) — In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of an ancient Egyptian person, revealing unprecedented insight about the ancestry of a man who lived during the time ...

Research suggests the destruction of her statues "were perhaps driven by ritual necessity rather than outright antipathy." ...

Scotland Now Museums Ancient Viking crystal jar buried over 1,000 years ago to go on public display in Scotland The Viking hoard was buried in around AD 900 and contains extraordinary items ...