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A remarkable discovery at Saqqara has unveiled an ancient Egyptian embalming workshop, revealing mummification as a ...

Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...

A team of bioarchaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Université de Bordeaux, and Aix-Marseille Université has found evidence of an aristocratic ...

The late pope’s remains will be on display for three days in Saint Peter’s Basilica – Copyright VATICAN MEDIA/AFP Handout Ahead of his lying-in-state, Pope ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery. While other ...