This week the Getty Villa Museum will begin offering a rare look at scrolls from its ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” ...

Archaeologists in Luxor uncover coffins linked to the Singers of Amun, offering insight into temple rituals, burial practices ...

The backstory: The collection of 19 manuscripts written on scrolls of papyrus and linen fragments are fragile, with one of them dating back nearly 3,500 years. Because of that, the materials are not ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we don't know ...

A brightly painted cache of 22 wooden coffins, many marked with the title “Singer/Chantress of Amun”, has been uncovered on Luxor’s West Bank, alongside eight rare papyri sealed inside a large ceramic ...

The 20th-century art historian Kenneth Clark made a distinction between the “naked,” meaning unclothed and ashamed, and the ...

A new digital reconstruction of the face of an early Australopithecus specimen helps add details about the origins of our own ...

The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum is one of those secrets hiding in plain sight, a full-scale Egyptian temple filled with ...

The Ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead” turned me into a believer. We talked to the curators and conservators to learn how it ...

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Now, a 3,300-year-old Egyptian text preserved in the British Museum is once again fueling one of the Bible's most controversial debates: were the giants of the Old Testament rooted in real historical ...

Between all the tech campuses and startup offices in San Jose sits a full-blown Egyptian temple housing thousands of ancient artifacts that would make Indiana Jones weep with joy. That’s not a mirage ...