More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long it would stick around. The Tarkhan Dress, carbon-dated to 3482 to 3102 B.C., ...

Archaeologists made the discovery of the tomb which is the first of its kind due to the fact that it dates back nearly 4,000 ...

The eleven bodies were believed to have belonged to an important family in the Middle Kingdom period when pharaohs Amenemhet ...

UConn women’s basketball legend Sue Bird is all too familiar with the stern perfectionism of longtime associate head coach Chris Dailey, and though it was often a thorn in her side during her time in ...

The researchers developed 12 original recipes to recreate Egyptian Blue, identifying ingredients and cooking temperatures to produce various shades of the pigment.

Ancient Greek mercenaries were a ubiquitous force on the battlefields of the ancient Mediterranean where they fought for ...

In the course of more than 3,000 years, Pharaonic Egypt was ... the end of the fourth century B.C., soon after the line of the pharaohs had come to an end. This “Last Dynasty,” as the ...

In particular, the 18th dynasty is often associated with the ... the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of ...

Magli analyzed the possibility that this celestial event influenced the politics, religion, and stability of ancient Egypt. The Fourth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, ruling approximately ...

A total solar eclipse that occurred on April 1, 2471 BCE, could have had a direct connection to the fall of Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, the era of the great pyramid builders. This discovery has been ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary. A new study on Ancient Egyptian ...

The three famous pyramids of Giza, for context, were each built during the fourth dynasty of Egypt. The first of the trio was constructed as a royal tomb for Khufu. The next was built for Khafre ...