A group of scientists has sequenced the genome of a man who was buried in Egypt around 4,500 years ago. The study offers rare insight into the genetic ancestry of early Egyptians and reveals links to ...

Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Reveals Pharaohs Knew Secret of Advanced Ink Technology 2,000 Years Ago Published Nov 11, 2017 at 6:25 AM EST ...

Elaine Sullivan takes a fresh look at the ancient Egyptian burial site of Saqqara with some tantalizing new tools.

Technology has revolutionized the way we see mummified remains from ancient Egypt. With CT scans, Egyptologists can see remains in unprecedented detail without unwrapping them. Here are eight ...

It was ultimately improvements in technology over the past decade that paved the way for the authors of the new study to finally sequence an entire ancient Egyptian genome.

Fifteen Questions: Peter Der Manuelian on Ancient Egypt, 3D Technology, and Indiana Jones The Egyptologist sat down with Fifteen Minutes to discuss using modern technology to study ancient societies.

Hidden details have been discovered in ancient Egyptian paintings using portable chemical imaging technology, researchers said in a new study published in the open journal PLOS One.

Egypt has installed for the first time a state-of-the-art air purification system inside the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the last ...

There has long been a fascination in Britain with the world of ancient Egypt. What is it about this mysterious civilisation that so catches the imagination? Five thousand years ago the chain of ...

Sometimes, clues about ancient technology are hidden in the most mundane things. In this case, Tel-Aviv University archaeologist Erez Ben-Yosef and his colleagues went rummaging through heaps of ...