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

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Along the west bank of the Nile near Aswan, Egypt, a series of rock-cut tombs have been holding centuries of history and artifacts. A renewed excavation at the Oubbet el-Hawa site has uncovered some ...

Continue the adventure inside the legendary Egyptian Museum in Cairo where a 22nd birthday celebration unfolds among five thousand years of history, from the only surviving statue of pyramid builder ...

A researcher claims the Great Pyramids may predate ancient Egypt and could be the work of a lost civilization with advanced ...

Now, a 3,300-year-old Egyptian text preserved in the British Museum is once again fueling one of the Bible's most controversial debates: were the giants of the Old Testament rooted in real historical ...

A small copper tool found in a museum drawer is now confirmed as the oldest rotary metal drill in ancient Egypt, dating back 5,300 years.

What was it like to live in ancient Egypt during an era of sweeping change? Although we can't put ourselves in the shoes of ancient Egyptians, we at least know how one of them may have lived now that ...

A lesser-known period in Egyptian history has just been unearthed. Penn Museum and Egyptian archaeologists, alongside the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, have discovered a massive tomb ...

Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis – not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass ...