Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. They found a “Book of the Dead” papyrus scroll measuring over 43 feet long—a rare ...
Egypt's ministry of tourism and antiquities unveiled a renovated wing of its oldest museum Monday, home to a 16-meter-long scroll unearthed last year. The refurbishment marks the first stage of ...
Carefully placed inside an ancient Egyptian coffin sat a rolled-up papyrus. While pharaohs came and went, empires rose and fell, the Nile flooded and receded, the papyrus remained unchanged and ...
A well-preserved copy of the "Book of the Dead" was just uncovered in Egypt. This copy was written on a papyrus scroll that is over 42 feet long. Along with the book, the Egyptian government says ...
An exhibition at the Getty reveals the Egyptian Book of the Dead, long relegated to a dark vault, in the light of day. A piece of the Papyrus of Pasherashakhet, dated roughly to 375 B.C. to 275 B.C., ...
A MYSTERIOUS papyrus scroll has the potential to prove the story of the 10 plagues of Egypt written about in the Bible, researchers argue. The Ipuwer Papyrus, an ancient Egyptian poetic lament, ...
On Saturday, Egypt opened a pharaoh's tomb after more than two decades of renovation. Some of its contents were robbed in ...
GLOVERSVILLE — Annika Sams will teach a class on creating an Egyptian scroll necklace at 6 p.m. Feb. 23, at the Paul Nigra Center for Creative Arts, Route 30. The fee will be $10 with preregistration ...