In an exhibition on ancient Egyptian-inspired fashion at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a relief depicts the wife of Amenhotep wearing a kalasiris, or long linen dress, juxtaposed with a white ...

Child: The ancient Egyptian civilisation began 5,000 years ... This is a painted cartonnage (mummy case) for a woman. It has a gilded face and a scarab beetle pendant. Scarab beetles were very ...

The Rosetta stone was discovered in 1799 AD. It is a three-foot high stone containing hieroglyphs, everyday ancient Egyptian language and a Greek translation. Since Greek was understood ...

Since the late 19th-century, Egypt has continued to offer up astounding archaeological treasures, and it shows no signs of slowing down. The discovery of yet another pharaoh’s tomb, that of King ...

A joint Egyptian-American archaeological team made the discovery in the Mount Anubis necropolis in Abydos, a major city in ancient Upper ... cap and the skull of a woman in her 30s, suggest ...