UNESCO Regional Director Dr. Nuria Sanz described the exhibition as a meaningful contribution to heritage protection and environmental sustainability, while Dr. Ahmed Ghoneim, CEO of the Grand ...

Wasabi vapours are potent enough to kill fungi growing on painted papyrus fragments – all without damaging the fragile artefacts or altering the appearance of their vivid colours. Fungus can damage ...

A new study reveals that Japanese horseradish isn’t just good as a sinus-clearing part of a plate of sushi, but is also effective in art conservation. Wasabi vapors have been found to effectively ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...

Ancient Egypt had far more venomous snakes than the country does today, according to a new study of a scroll. How much can the written records of ancient civilizations tell us about the animals they ...

Few discoveries stop Egyptologists in their tracks, but this one did. During a routine excavation near Djoser’s Step Pyramid, the oldest of Egypt's pyramids, archaeologists brushed aside centuries of ...

MILLCREEK, Utah (KTVX) – Using recipes from ancient Egyptian papyrus and a master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies, a Utah man brewed a beer based on recipes nearly 3,000 years old. Dylan McDonnell, ...

The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square is hosting a new exhibition that reintroduces papyrus, one of Egypt’s most ancient symbols, not as a relic of the past, but as a living medium for contemporary art ...