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

Explore ancient medicine's surprising innovations, from trepanation to herbal cures. Discover early healing practices and ...

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

Medicine in Ancient Greece and Egypt contributed significantly to the development of modern day medical practices and healing ...

Ancient Egyptians developed surprisingly clever solutions for everyday life, from early medicine and dental care to door ...

Most recently, researchers have used mass spectrometry-based proteomics to analyze the glues and adhesives in a broad set of Egyptian artifacts, according to a new paper published in the journal ...

Women are going to great lengths for more beautiful stems. Lasers for your thighs, collagen-stimulating injections in your ...

Suffering for beautiful legs, it seems, is one of civilization’s oldest traditions. Sure, I could’ve selected a relaxing ...

It’s surreal not to see another soul on The Backs, a much-photographed stretch flowing past the lush groomed lawns of the ...

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 ...

François Champollion rushed into his brother Jacques's office and shouted—“Je tiens l'affaire! (I've got it!)”Then he fainted ...

According to new research, the geoglyph stood there 1,500 years before construction on Stonehenge had even begun.