Ancient Egypt had far more venomous snakes than the country does today, according to a new study of a scroll. How much can the written records of ancient civilizations tell us about the animals they ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 52-foot-long (16 meters) papyrus containing sections from the Book of the Dead. The more than 2,000-year-old document was found within a coffin in a tomb ...

Egyptian officials have released photos of an ancient scroll, the 52-foot-long (16 meters) Book of the Dead papyrus recently discovered in Saqqara. The 10 images show ancient illustrations of gods and ...

A new study reveals that Japanese horseradish isn’t just good as a sinus-clearing part of a plate of sushi, but is also effective in art conservation. Wasabi vapors have been found to effectively ...

BERKELEY — Muttering softly, Todd Hickey peered into the screen of his laptop computer at a black-and-white digital image of a tattered 1,900-year-old Egyptian papyrus document. He was trying to ...

AL-QARAMOUS, Egypt (Reuters) - A village keeping the ancient Egyptian craft of papyrus-making alive has seen demand for the paper collapse after the novel coronavirus pandemic brought Egypt's foreign ...

UNESCO Regional Director Dr. Nuria Sanz described the exhibition as a meaningful contribution to heritage protection and ...

The humble plant that grows in the Nile had a huge impact on the written word in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and thereby on the cultures of the rest of the world. A small museum in Cairo shows how ...

An ancient Egyptian papyrus with an image showing two bird-like creatures, possibly with a penis connecting them, has been deciphered, revealing a magic spell of love. "The most striking feature of ...

A team of German scientists has used a combination of cutting-edge physics techniques to virtually "unfold" an ancient Egyptian papyrus, part of an extensive collection housed in the Berlin Egyptian ...