Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Ancient Egypt in North Africa was one of the most powerful and influential civilizations in the region for over 3,000 ... A popular ancient name for Egypt was "Kemet," which means the "black land." ...

The genome of a man who lived in Egypt over 4500 years ago offers a new window on the ancient society and hints at ...

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now Opens Sunday— Feb. 17, 2025, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan; metmuseum.org.

Previously, experts had speculated about the presence of the plague in ancient Egypt. A 3,500-year-old medical text dubbed the Ebers Papyrus described a disease that "has produced a bubo, and the ...

The ancient Egyptians were very successful farmers. They planted their crops around the flooding cycles of the River Nile. Discover more with this year 3/4 History interactive Bitesize guide.

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

Since the 19th century, a strain in Black American culture has claimed ancient Egypt as ancestor and inspiration. A fascination with that long-ago land has permeated Black art deeply enough to ...

Some of the female pharaoh's statues were "ritually deactivated," a new study finds. For the past 100 years, Egyptologists ...

Egypt has been a perennial source of fascination in both Europe and the United States. It was already an ancient civilization when the ancient Greeks and Romans looked to it for inspiration ...

The topic of the imagination of ancient Egypt in music, predominantly from the African diaspora, Black artists in different styles, jazz, soul, funk, hip-hop, had long been ignored.” ...

Cairo — As soon as Netflix dropped the trailer for its upcoming "docudrama" about ancient Egypt's Queen Cleopatra, drama started bubbling up online. The preview quickly drew criticism. Some ...