Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the U.K., have made the thrilling discovery of a 4,000-year-old handprint on an ancient Egyptian funerary object, in the course of preparing a major ...

We’re talking delivery receipts, school assignments, and doodles.

Inscriptions found include notes on exercises by schoolchildren, religious texts, and certificates for the quality of ...

Recent breakthroughs in archaeology, from advanced CT scans of 2,300-year-old mummies to the decoding of the oldest Egyptian genome, are transforming our understanding of ancient Egypt. Discoveries ...

Ceramic fragments lay on the ground at the Garoa Hallagana rock art site, in Ennedi Ouest province, Chad, on July 10, 2025. JORIS BOLOMEY JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP via Getty Images Imagine holding a piece of ...

A facial reconstruction was made using a 3D scan of the Egyptian man's skull. - Caroline Wilkinson, Liverpool John Moores University In a long-sought first, researchers have sequenced the entire ...

A picture taken on April 10, 2021, shows a pot bearing inscriptions at the archaeological site of a 3000 year old city, dubbed The Rise of Aten, dating to the reign of Amenhotep III, uncovered by the ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle, all thanks to a few broken fragments found in a curious location. The artifacts, which mostly consist of Egyptian ...