Egypt on Wednesday unveiled new archaeological discoveries, including the 4,000-year-old tombs of high-ranking officials and ...

The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, spread across Europe in the 14th century, wiping out as many as 50 million ...

You'd probably not think I'd then tell you about Ancient Egypt, right? Well, it turns out the two are linked, with an ancient mummy having traces of the pandemic that once wiped out 50 million people.

The ancient Egyptians employed a host of exotic ingredients – some apparently imported from as far away as Southeast Asia – to mummify ... millennia to prepare Egypt’s dead for the afterlife.

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed 4,600-year-old ‘well’ tomb and brick tombs, other burials and an ancient mummy in a Greco-Roman catacomb. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and ...

Archaeologists have discovered long-lost ancient Egyptian tombs that were ... beginning of the New Kingdom period, driving Asiatic people from Egypt to reunify the nation following a time of ...

Samples of the Black Death, which wiped out as many as 50 million people in medieval Europe ... evidence for the presence of plague in ancient Egypt, although we cannot infer how widespread ...

Cairo: Egypton Wednesday announced new archaeological findings, including4,000 year old tombs belonging tohigh ranking ...

So far, all ancient examples of Yersinia pestis DNA have come from Europe and Asia, with some evidence of infection visible in 5,000-year-old skeletons in Russia. This discovery in Egypt ...

Egyptian archaeologists restore recently discovered artifacts by the mission of the Zahi Hawass Foundation for Antiquities & Heritage, at the causeway of Queen Hatshepsut’s Funerary temple, at Deir al ...

Officials have announced a number of discoveries during excavations around the valley temple of the powerful Egyptian queen, who reigned during the 15th century B.C.E. Sarah Kuta The chamber holds ...