Ancient Egyptians kept sacred, revered baboons in captivity, a new study has revealed. Archeologists and historians already knew that Egyptians revered and mummified several species of animals ...

Wolfgang Wüster receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Isabelle Catherine Winder does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...

The sequencing of a genome extracted from the remains of an individual from ancient Egypt has revealed that 77.6% of their ancestry traces back to Neolithic North Africa, as defined by researchers in ...

A comprehensive 17-year archaeological study has shattered the long-standing myth that the ancient Egyptian pyramids were built by slave labor. Instead, the research, conducted from 1993 to 2010 at ...

Each October, an expedition from the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) returns to Chicago House, their headquarters in Luxor, Egypt. Known as the Epigraphic ...