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An Egyptian artifact with flecks of Egyptian dye being examined by researcher

Scientists recreate lost recipes for a 5,000-year-old Egyptian blue dye

Nut’s cosmological vignette on the outer coffin of Nesitaudjatakhet in the collection of Odessa Archaeological Museum OAM 52976 (C107). Nut’s body is covered in stars as well as a thick, undulating black curve that runs from the soles of her feet to the tips of her fingers. This curve, surrounded by stars on both sides, is reminiscent of the Milky Way’s Great Rift. Credit: Mykola Tarasenko; Odessa Archaeological Museum, NASU

Tomb art suggests Egyptian sky goddess wore the Milky Way galaxy

An Egyptian pharaoh tomb excavation site with people working

A mystery pharaoh’s massive tomb was discovered in Egypt

Egyptian relief artwork of Thutmose II

Pharaoh’s tomb is the biggest ancient Egyptian discovery since King Tutankhamun

A selection of the mummified bodies in the exhibition area of the Egyptian museum in Cairo.

What do Egyptian mummies smell like? Surprisingly pleasant.

a skull next to a yellow note that reads: "Skull from Ephesus.”

Sorry, this skull does not belong to Cleopatra’s sister

By Laura Baisas

Pyramids in Giza

Bubonic plague discovered in ancient Egyptian mummy DNA

Various images of Bes mugs

Ancient Egyptian ritual potion included hallucinogens and bodily fluids

Side by side of mummy entering CT scanner with two images of a mummy's skull scan

3D scans reveal secrets of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy’s coffin

a long bronze sword

Egyptologists find ancient sword possibly wielded against the mysterious ‘Sea Peoples’

By Laura Baisas

Various artifacts recovered from Temple of Buto

Egyptologists uncover 2,500 year-old observatory full of precise tools

Pyramid of Djoser with camel

Egypt’s oldest pyramid may have been built using a hydraulic lift

Close up of Screaming Woman mummy's face

‘Screaming woman’ may solve a 3,500-year-old mummy mystery

five statues depicting the high dignitary Nefer and his wife (Abusir, Egypt).

Ancient Egyptian scribes suffered bone damage from working long hours in hunched positions

By Laura Baisas

a human skull on a dark background with E270 printed on it

4,000 year-old Egyptian skulls show attempts at brain surgery to treat cancer

By Laura Baisas