As crews dug through the soil along the Nile in Southern Egypt, skeletons slowly emerged from the dirt. The area had once been an ancient graveyard, but looting and housing projects had damaged the ...

Back in the early 1920s, archaeologists came across an ancient Egyptian town called Deir el-Medina near the Nile River. Previous research has shown that the town was active from 1550 B.C. to 1070 B.C.

(Reuters) - It is a startling image from ancient Egypt - a mummy discovered during a 1935 archaeological expedition at Deir el-Bahari near Luxor of a woman with her mouth wide open in what looks like ...

The skeletal remains of an ancient Egyptian woman reveal she likely suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, a disease that — though common today — is rarely seen in the archaeological record. The finding ...

Visitors tour the site in the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, where archaeologists unearthed two human and animal embalming workshops, as well as two tombs, on May 27, 2023. — KHALED DESOUKI/AFP ...

A woman who lived more than 3,000 years ago in Egypt had holes in the bones of her joints, suggesting she suffered from a rare autoimmune disease, researchers said. Mant, M., et al, International ...