A new study of ancient Egyptian sculpture has taken a new approach by looking at the fingerprints left embedded in the artwork. A study of these fingerprints has revealed much about their working practices. The study, by Oxford University PhD student Leonie Hoff and published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, uses the fingerprints to
A new and unknown Egyptian tomb has been found in Luxor in Egypt. What makes this discovery so exciting is that, while most tombs are empty or partially destroyed, this one contains intact burials. The Egyptians viewed the afterlife as the start of a journey for which life was only the prelude. As a result
Something new has been discovered in an ancient Egyptian tomb. A hidden chamber set into the rock wall has been uncovered, seemingly entirely by accident. The burial chamber was found during cleaning work on the tomb, undertaken by a joint team from Sohag University and the Free University of Berlin, according to the Egyptian Ministry
An excavation team led by Dr. Ahmed Saeed El-Kharadly have uncovered an ancient sword in Egypt’s Beheira Governate in the north of the country, between Alexandria and Cairo and in the heart of ancient Egypt. The sword was found at the Tell Al-Abqain archaeological site, in what appears to have been a military storage complex
Ever wondered why proponents of medieval alchemy thought they could turn lead into gold? Such a transmogrification seems the stuff of fantasy to us with our modern understanding of matter, chemistry and physics, but alchemists had none of this. And, as it turns out, their thinking was quite sophisticated for the Middle Ages. Strip away
The Egyptian pantheon of gods is among the most familiar to the modern world. Although perhaps not as well known as the gods of Hinduism, or the ancient Greek pantheon and their knock-off Roman copies, most will know about at least a few of these figures. Names like Isis and Osiris, Horus and Ra will