Miniature Wooden Granary Model Discovered in an Ancient Hidden Chamber Reveals Egyptians Consumed a Lot of Grains Food grains ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Ptolemais on Libya's Mediterranean coast recently explored a Roman-era villa ...

A small, wooden diorama found in an ancient Egyptian tomb reflects the importance of grain in an agricultural society.

Burnt to a crisp by lava from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, the reams of rolled-up papyrus were discovered in a mansion in Herculaneum — an ancient Roman town near Pompeii — in the mid-18th century.

It is the first royal tomb to be found since King Tutankhaman's over a century ago. Researchers find nine mummies they examined all smelled "woody", "spicy" and "sweet". Egypt and Qatar are ...

The term Egyptian cotton gets thrown around a lot as shorthand for very fancy sheets, but not all Egyptian cotton is created equal. Some sheets made from Egyptian cotton will be certified as such ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem worked in tandem to showcase this papyrus, which had been in possession of the ...

Now known as the Edwin Smith Papyrus, this ancient text has given scholars a greater understanding of medical practices in ancient Egypt. The exact origins of the Edwin Smith Papyrus aren’t known, but ...

A 2,000-year-old papyrus discovered in Israel reveals sophisticated Roman legal procedures for prosecuting financial crimes, including tax evasion and document forgery related to slave trading. The ...

Students study Hebrew and either Greek or Latin throughout the programme, plus up to three additional languages chosen from a wide selection including Akkadian, Aramaic, Egyptian, Sumerian, Syriac and ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unveil a unique papyrus from the collections held by the Israel Antiquities Authority, ...