Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the U.K., have made the thrilling discovery of a 4,000-year-old handprint on an ancient Egyptian funerary object, in the course of preparing a major ...

High on a sandstone cliff overlooking the Nile at Aswan, a research team has uncovered a group of previously unknown rock-cut ...

Archeologists discovered 18,000 pottery fragments used as writing materials in ancient Egypt. The fragments were used to write shopping lists, receipts, and lines students wrote as a punishment. The ...

Broken pieces of clay pottery have revealed the names of dozens of Egyptian priests who served at the temple of a crocodile god, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) announced. Subscribe to ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle, all thanks to a few broken fragments found in a curious location. The artifacts, which mostly consist of Egyptian ...

The Louisiana Art & Science Museum, 100 S. River Road, will feature local ceramicist Bill Moore in its Studio Saturdays series from 10 a.m. to noon on May 17. Moore will lead a hands-on, open-format ...

Archaeologists at Athribis have uncovered more than 42,000 inscribed pottery shards revealing daily ancient Egyptian life. The ostraca include tax receipts, religious texts, and notes written in ...

Archaeologists at the pyramids and necropolis of Saqqara in Giza found pottery vessels containing ancient halloumi cheese, about 2,600 years old, experts say. Photo from the Egyptian Ministry of ...

Inscriptions found include notes on exercises by schoolchildren, religious texts, and certificates for the quality of ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle, all thanks to a few broken fragments found in a curious location. The artifacts, which mostly consist of Egyptian ...