Could an Egyptian coffin, dated 5,000 years ago, hold the answer to one of the night sky’s greatest mysteries? University of ...

A burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been unearthed after nearly 4,000 years. Named Idy, her remains were found in a coffin within another coffin in a tomb ...

Archaeologists have uncovered an Ancient Egyptian cemetery dated to more than 3,000 years ago containing the colorful coffin of a high priest's daughter and preserved mummies, among hundreds of ...

An 'extraordinary' burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been unearthed after nearly 4,000 years. Idy, the daughter of a wealthy governor who lived around 1880 ...

The graffiti is the personal inscriptions written by priests as they entered the temple, with prayers addressed to Horus that reveal more insight into Ancient Egyptian religious practices.

The “elegant” face of an ancient Egyptian priestess whose singing was said to be able to calm the gods can be seen for the ...

In his work The Histories, ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote that the Greeks borrowed much of their knowledge, ...

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that archaeologists uncovered a 3,900-year-old burial chamber belonging to Idy, an ancient Egyptian noblewoman, in Asyut, Egypt. Idy was ...

Asyut , Egypt, carried out from August to September 2024, a female mummy, the daughter of a local governor (Nomarcos) from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt , was discovered. He was buried in two ...

The mummy of an ancient Egyptian named Hekashepes represents two remarkable firsts, but it wasn't the lead scientist's favorite discovery at Saqqara this week.

“Most female professions in ancient Egypt don’t have titles,” Engel says. There are exceptions, such as chantress and priestess, but, she explains, other roles are less frequently attested ...