Scientist at the University of Aberdeen are using 3D imaging software to create interactive models of mummies and other ...
A mummified cat, circa 332–30 B.C. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum. Cats played an important role in ancient Egyptian culture—from domesticated animals, which were kept to ...
Science Alert reports that an ancient sarcophagus has been unearthed 16 feet below ground in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. A top Egyptian antiquities official says local archaeologists have ...
A Roman‑era tomb in Egypt’s Minya Governorate has yielded bizarrely ordained mummies, rare papyri, and artifacts that ...
New research suggests that cat domestication began in ancient Egypt between the second and first millennium BC, driven by ...