Every year brings new discoveries from ancient Egypt and 2024 was no exception. In this countdown, Live Science takes a look ...

Engineers might have cracked the code for how the ancient Egyptians built their first pyramids. A new study suggests that ...

Usually transmitted by fleas hitching a ride on rodents, the bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, and initially ...

A team tested the ancient mummy dating back more than 3,000 years and discovered the bubonic plague in his bone tissue and ...

Some of the mummies discovered recently in the Ptolemaic-era tombs were found with pieces of gold shaped into the form of a ...

This groundbreaking discovery reveals the DNA of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for the plague, in a mummy from ...

Archaeologists were shocked to discover the painting on the coffin which had more than a passing resemblance to the famous ...

With a population over 15 million, Baladi dogs are everywhere—and often mistreated or killed. But that’s starting to change.

Scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery: they found the DNA of the bacterium Yersinia pestis in a mummy from Egypt, ...

Egyptian authorities have arrested two men for attempting to steal hundreds of ancient artifacts from the bottom of the sea, ...

An over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague marks the first case of the disease outside the ...