The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

The tombs, discovered in the Qubbet el-Hawa site, were complete with shafts and burial chambers. A group of rock-cut tombs ...

A white fluid on a 3,300-year-old papyrus was used to make the figure of a jackal slimmer, researchers have found ...

A white-out fluid, found on a 3,300-year-old papyrus, was used to make a jackal appear skinnier, Egyptologists have found.

Regarded as one of the longest and most passionate poems ever written, the Great Hymn to the Aten is an ancient Egyptian poem that praises Aten, the ancient Egyptian deity of the Sun, as the ...

Ancient Egyptian craftspeople used a corrective fluid similar to modern-day Wite-Out to fix their mistakes, according to researchers at the University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum. Curators made ...

It appears that even the most skilled scribes of ancient Egypt made mistakes. A recent discovery at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge has revealed that ancient Egyptian artisans used a correction ...

When Napoleon Bonaparte embarked upon a military expedition to Egypt in 1798, he took with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental Description de ...