The copper and leather device represents the first evidence of mechanical tools from Egypt’s pre-Pharaonic history.

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A researcher claims the Great Pyramids may predate ancient Egypt and could be the work of a lost civilization with advanced ...

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Archaeologists have rediscovered a lost tomb that contains the mummy of an ancient Egyptian official. The tomb belonged to Ptahshepses, who lived around 4,400 years ago during the 25th and 24th ...

A small copper tool found in a museum drawer is now confirmed as the oldest rotary metal drill in ancient Egypt, dating back ...

Cambyses and Psammenitus . Meeting between Cambyses II , King of Achaemenid of the Persian empire, from 529 to 522 BC (best known for having conquered Egypt) and Psammetichus III , Pharaoh -from 526 ...

Now, a 3,300-year-old Egyptian text preserved in the British Museum is once again fueling one of the Bible's most ...

Archaeologists have uncovered rock-cut tombs dating back to the Old Kingdom in Aswan, Egypt, revealing pottery vessels and ...

Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis – not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass ...

Near Alexandria in Egypt, this lost city was once an ancient place of pleasure, but today, it lies beneath the waves of the ...