An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that mimicked these diagnoses, researchers have concluded, settling a four-year ...

The find in Saqqara included 150 bronze statues of ancient Egyptian deities. SAQQARA, Egypt -- Egypt has uncovered 2,500-year-old wooden coffins and bronze statues in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara ...

The mummified remains of an ancient Egyptian woman named Asru have been on display at the Manchester Museum since 1825. Prisma by Dukas Presseagentur GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo Should museums display ...

The mummified remains of Queen Hatshepsut, ancient Egypt's most famous female pharaoh, at the Cairo Museum in 2007 — CRIS BOURONCLE She was one of ancient Egypt's most successful rulers, a rare female ...

When it was made: Circa 1425 to 1353 B.C. In 1906, archaeologists discovered this wig of an Egyptian woman known as Merit when excavating her tomb, which she shared with her husband Kha, in Luxor ...

LIMA, April 24 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in coastal Peru have discovered the 5,000-year-old remains of a woman who may have belonged to the upper echelons of the ancient Caral civilization, a find ...

Carvings in a turquoise mine from around 1800 BC appear to mention a wise man named Moses. But scholars are skeptical that it’s the Biblical prophet. Moses with the Tablets of the Law (oil on canvas) ...