Eighteen of 46 skulls from subsidiary burials at Abydos showed potentially lethal injuries inflicted near the time of death.

Penn Museum recently received a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for a video project documenting its newly renovated Egypt and Nubia ...

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Reconstruction of the extinct Herugavialis cairensis with the Great Sphinx and pyramids depicted in the background. Artwork ...

About 45 million years ago in northern Egypt, a long-snouted crocodile hunted in the warm, shallow sea. Its bones settled ...

For decades, the dominant idea was that prehistoric people arrived at the end of the last Ice Age, around 13,500 years ago, ...

Forensic research has identified deliberate and fatal wounds on skulls from simple grave sites near First Dynasty royal tombs ...

This year’s Nobel Prizes kick off with the awarding of the medicine prize at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

This site may offer the strongest evidence of retainer sacrifice in Egypt, given the large number of subsidiary graves around ...

The funerary complexes at Abydos were built around 3000 BCE by the first kings of a unified Egypt. In addition to the royal ...

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Ancient Egyptians created approximately 70 million animal mummies over a period of 1,500 years.Dogs alone account for an estimated 7.8 million. Ibises number over 2 million. Cats are even more ...