A papyrus that contains part of Homer's "Iliad" has been discovered inside the abdomen of a mummy in Egypt. Other mummies at the cemetery had gold tongues.
Study of extreme environments on Earth, along with exploration of the lifeless surface of the moon, can help us understand ...
It took six years of more painstaking digging at the site of Tell el-Farma, in the eastern extremes of Egypt’s Nile Delta, to ...
Egyptian mummies were frequently embalmed using repurposed bits of papyrus with religious texts and other spiritual passages ...
A team of scientists using the ChemCam instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has discovered the highest amounts of iron, ...
When the Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Center's Semmelweis Museum of Medical History in Budapest was founded in ...
Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer’s Iliad in the gut of an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first time ever that a ...
Madagascar is home to seven species of baobab trees, of which six are found nowhere else on the planet. Many of the trees ...
Archaeologists discovered the largest trove of ostraca—inscriptions on broken pottery sherds—ever found, with over 43,000 ...
Archaeologists from the Spanish-Egyptian expedition led by the University of Barcelona and the Institute of Ancient Near East ...
The Oxyrhynchus Archaeological Mission, run by the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies (IPOA) at the University of ...
Underground Books is a local bookstore located at 2828 35th Street in Sacramento and is hosting a book signing with author ...