An ancient cemetery in Egypt revealed a collection of mummies and golden funeral offerings with a very specific purpose, according to archaeologists. Researchers excavating an archaeological site ...
In a necropolis just to the south, the researchers uncovered more than 20 mummies interred in Roman-era tombs, along with ...
Not to put too fine a point on it, a mummy is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin, but ...
A study of ancient Egyptian mummies has shown that schistosomiasis and malaria hounded the pharaohs. The Nile likely dictated which diseases were most common in ancient Egypt and Nubia. Thirty-one ...
While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now ...
New archeological discoveries in Egypt have revealed incredible ancient sites, such as the Cemetery of Khuwy and a mysterious ...
Tutankhamun, also known as King Tut, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh whose lavish tomb became world-famous upon its discovery in 1922.
This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1888 an Egyptian farmer digging in the sand near the village of Istabl Antar uncovered a mass grave. The bodies ...
From Iron Age hoards and rare biblical inscriptions to lost desert cities and even the skeletons of huge sea dragons, we take ...
With persistent inflation and other factors continuing to impact the economic landscape, many investors have been searching for alternative investment options, such as gold, to help protect their ...
The Spanish archaeological mission from the University of Barcelona and the Institute of the Ancient Near East, headed by Dr. Maitah Maskort and Dr. Esther Ponce Mellado, succeeded in uncovering a ...
Gold has for centuries been an attractive commodity. Not only is the precious metal viewed as a form of currency, but it's considered an attractive investment commodity as well. That's especially ...