As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

Exploring Grand Palaces, seeing Egyptian mummies and gazing at the Holy Shroud are some of the things to do in Turin. This ...

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Egyptian mummy's horrifying fate changes everything experts knew about disease The scientific name for the infection, Yersinia pestis, wiped out vast swathes of Europe but this new finding means ...

The papyrus or papyrus It is the writing surface manufactured by the ancient Egyptians by the stem of these aquatic plants that grew on the banks of the Nile. This card has a very long story: it all ...

From mysterious artifacts to giant megaliths, discoveries that promise to reveal our past have completely baffled the ...

Well known to specialists, but less familiar to the general public, Vienna’s ancient Egyptian Papyrus Museum should be part of every visit to the Austrian capital.

Yet ancient Egyptian priests would have eagerly and publicly conversed with you about oral sex, because it was a crucial aspect of both their culture and religion.

One ancient Egyptian medical text known as the Ebers Papyrus, dated to 1500 B.C., describes a 'Black Death'-like illness that 'produced a bubo' of tell-tale 'petrified' pus.

Black Death DNA Found In 3,300-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy The plague was killing people long before the Black Death pandemic.

Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2016, 201-215. “The flying pintail duck,” in: P. Kousoulis and N. Lazaridis (eds).

The Egyptian Museum of Turin, founded in 1824 by King Charles Felix of Savoy, is one of the most prestigious Egyptian collections in the world outside Cairo. Since its creation inside it found space ...