For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have ...

Scientist at the University of Aberdeen are using 3D imaging software to create interactive models of mummies and other ...

A mummified cat, circa 332–30 B.C. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum. Cats played an important role in ancient Egyptian culture—from domesticated animals, which were kept to ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists are gaining new insight into the ancient Egyptian practice of mummifying animals, using high-resolution 3D scans to peer inside mummies of a cat, a bird and a snake ...

Science Alert reports that an ancient sarcophagus has been unearthed 16 feet below ground in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. A top Egyptian antiquities official says local archaeologists have ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery. While other ...