Archaeologists from Charles University in Prague have begun to excavate a funerary boat that dates back to the Third or Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, circa 2550 BC. The Abusir region ...

CAIRO, Egypt – Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid and try to reassemble the ...

Located in Fustat (Old Cairo), the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC) is like no other. The museum is dedicated ...

Vikings burned the deceased in boats to grant safe passage into the ... burial practices in living history is mummification. Ancient Egyptians began mummifying the dead as early as 3,500 B.C.E ...

Remnants of funerary boats have also been excavated ... an important source of information about Egyptian religion. The scarcity of ancient records, however, makes it difficult to be sure of the uses ...

including a garden of fig trees and a sporting boat. Half of these models are in the Met's collection, while the other half are in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. It is unclear why some ancient ...

When exactly humans took to the water in boats is unclear. Long considered a practice exclusive to our own species – Homo sapiens – researchers are gathering evidence that our early ancestors may have ...