NPR art director and illustrator Jackie Lay tells the story of Hatshepsut, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest pharaohs in Egypt's history — but whose legacy was erased for over 3,000 years ....
Credit... New scans have revealed a hidden structure beneath an ancient Egyptian city in the Nile Delta, offering fresh clues about one of the region’s most layered archaeological sites ... Hidden structure beneath Egyptian city revealed through satellite.
While preparing a papyrus for the museum’s upcoming “Made inAncientEgypt” exhibit, conservators noticed a thick white pigment lining the body of a jackal illustrated in one of the scenes ....
In the 1990s, one team of researchers believed that they had found traces of cocaine, nicotine, and THC within the bodies of ancient Egyptian mummies, long before anyone was thought to have traveled to South America.
Experts say this shows a more nuanced picture of women in ancient Egypt spiritually and socially ... Zawi Hawass, overseeing the excavation, notes that the find could change our understanding of female roles in Egyptian society.
Regarded as one of the longest and most passionate poems ever written, the Great Hymn to the Aten is an ancient Egyptian poem that praises Aten, the ancient Egyptian deity of the Sun, as the sustainer of all life and of all creation.
A new interpretation of a 3,500-year-old medical text from Egypt suggests that ancient physicians might have bathed patients’ eyeballs in human breast milk to treat certain ophthalmic conditions.
Hawass noted that the ancient Egyptians utilized the space efficiently by arranging the coffins in 10 horizontal rows, separating the lids from the boxes to maximize the chamber’s capacity.