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Nov 30, 2005

Ancient Egyptians Held Dwarves in High Esteem

Short stature didn't prevent dwarves in ancient Egyptian culture from attaining high positions in society. Some served as assistants to the pharaoh, while others were looked up to as gods. Chahira Kozma, a pediatrician at Georgetown University, examined remains and depictions of dwarves in ancient Egypt and concluded they were...

Feb 28, 2006

Remains of Worldâ€™s Oldest Ships Found in Egypt

Excavations at an ancient Egyptian shipyard have unearthed remains of the world's oldest seafaring ships. The 4,000-year-old timbers were found alongside equally ancient cargo boxes, anchors, coils of rope and other naval materials just as old, at what archaeologists are calling a kind of ancient military administration site. The massive...

Nov 30, 2007

Top 10 weird ways we deal with the dead

Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal With the Dead (Image credit: Çatalhöyük Research Project)Dying is a fact of life, as is the disposal of a body after the fact. You know all about burial and cremation, but here are the other ways people, past and present- have dealt with the...

Sep 30, 2009

Evidence Alexander the Great Wasn't First at Alexandria

The latest clues that settlements existed in the area for several hundred years before Alexander the Great come from microscopic bits of pollen and charcoal in ancient sediment layers. Alexandria was founded by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. The city sits on the Mediterranean coast at the western edge...

Jun 30, 2009

Buried City in Oasis Lends View of Ancient Egypt

A trench that was cut through collapsed mud bricks and the compacted debris of buildings leveled centuries ago is revealing a dusty scene of roof-topped streets in ancient Amheida, a city marooned on an oasis deep in Egypt’s western desert. The latest in a chain of archaeological discoveries in a...

May 31, 2009

Ancient Mummy's Face Recreated

The face of a long-dead mummy has been brought back to life through forensic science. Based on CT-scans of the skull of the ancient Egyptian mummy Meresamun, two artists independently reconstructed her appearance and arrived at similar images of the woman. Meresamun, a temple singer in Thebes (ancient Luxor) at...

Oct 31, 2011

Sex of Egyptian Child Mummy Remains a Mystery

A 2,000-year-old child mummy visited an Illinois hospital earlier this year so researchers could use imaging technology to look for clues to the child's life and death. A computed tomography, or CT, scan, conducted in March, revealed a few tantalizing tidbits: a delicate facial structure; the wads of cloth that...

Jul 31, 2013

Far Out: Ancient Egyptian Jewelry Came from Outer Space

Ancient Egyptian beads found in a 5,000-year-old tomb were made from iron meteorites that fell to Earth from space, according to a new study. The beads, which are the oldest known iron artifacts in the world, were crafted roughly 2,000 years before Egypt's Iron Age. In 1911, nine tube-shaped beads...

Jul 31, 2018

That Massive Black Sarcophagus Contained 3 Inscriptions. Here's What They Mean.

Editor's Note: This story was updated at 9:10 a.m. E.D.T. on Aug. 22, 2018 Three drawings, incised on three sheets of gold, have been discovered in a massive black granite sarcophagus in Alexandria, Egypt. One expert, not involved with the research, told Live Science that one of the drawings may...

Jun 30, 2018

Mummy Wearing Gold-Gilded Face Mask Discovered at Ancient Egypt Burial Ground

A silver face mask gilded with gold, a mummification workshop, mummies and sarcophagi have all been discovered at a tomb complex in Saqqara, Egypt, an Egyptian-German team announced this morning (July 14). The complex contains several burial shafts dug into the ground, some of them extending more than 100 feet...

Apr 30, 2018

Sprawling 3,300-Year-Old Egyptian Tomb Hides Secrets of Ancient War

Archaeologists have discovered the sprawling, 3,300-year-old tomb of an army general named Iwrhya at the ancient Egyptian site of Saqqara. Hieroglyphic inscriptions found on the tomb walls say that Iwrhya is a high army General, and High steward of the domain of Amun [and] High steward of the estates of...

Apr 30, 2018

Intriguing Gold Coin and Other Treasures Uncovered in Egypt

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed the remains of a huge, red, brick building — likely the remnants of a Roman bath — as well as a mountain of treasures, including a statue of a ram and a gold coin featuring King Ptolemy III, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities....

Mar 31, 2018

'Space Alien' Mummy Spurs DNA Debate

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The remains of a 6-inch-long mummy from Chile are not those of a space alien, according to recently reported research. The tiny body with its strange features – a...

Mar 31, 2018

This 3,000-Year-Old Horse Got a Human-Style Burial

More than 3,000 years ago in the Nile River Valley, a body was carefully prepared for ceremonial burial. It was wrapped in a shroud and placed in a tomb, surrounded by important objects that demonstrated its elevated status. The mourners probably had long faces as they sent their loved one...

Jan 31, 2018

In Photos: Tomb of Royal Woman Found in Ancient Egypt

Royal woman (Image credit: Egypt Antiquities Ministry)A tomb dating back over 4,300 years that held a woman named Hetpet has been discovered in a cemetery on the Giza Plateau in Egypt. She was a senior official in the royal palace, archaeologists say. [Read more about the ancient Egyptian discovery] Tomb...