Volumes II and III of the over 2,300-year-old Zidanku Silk Manuscripts arrived in Beijing at 3.55am on Sunday (May 18) after being returned by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art in ...

A trio of archaeologists from the University of Barcelona and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, both in Spain, and the ...

Archaeologists who are excavating the ancient city of Nineveh in Iraq have discovered a rare stone carving depicting the last ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

When curator of Egyptian archaeology Nir Or Lev began his role at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, he wasn’t just focused on the ...

Ancient Egyptians revered animals, mummifying them as offerings to gods. Recently, scientists at the University of Manchester ...

A rare Egyptian coffin image may show the Milky Way crossing the sky-goddess Nut, says a University of Portsmouth scientist.

Cats have lived alongside humans for thousands of years, and the remains of two domestic felines found in a nearly 500-year-old Spanish shipwreck likely represent the earliest example of the ...

An interest in understanding the role that the Milky Way played in Egyptian culture and religion has led University of Portsmouth Associate Professor of Astrophysics, Dr Or Graur to uncover what he ...

In his study, Dr. Graur reviewed 125 images of the sky-goddess Nut (pronounced "Noot"), found among 555 ancient Egyptian coffins dating back nearly 5,000 years. Combining astronomy with Egyptology ...

Scientists have uncovered astonishing ancient Egyptian imagery that hints at a cosmic connection, shedding new light on the mysteries of the night sky. Nut’s role as the sky goddess is integral to ...

Image: Mummified Egyptian cat in the British Museum in London. Credit: Neil Howard / CC BY-NC 2.0 For decades, experts believed cats were first domesticated in ancient Egypt, where they were ...