A high-production brewery believed to be more than 5,000 years old has been uncovered by a team of archaeologists in southern Egypt. About 40 ancient pots believed to have made beer were found at ...

The brewery “may have been built specifically to supply the royal rituals that were taking place inside the funeral facilities of the kings of Egypt,” says lead archaeologist Matthew Adams. Egyptian ...

The world’s oldest brewery has been discovered by a team of archaeologists at a site in southern Egypt. The beer factory, which is thought to be over 5,000 years old, was uncovered at North Abydos, ...

From the country's enormous riches to its complex religious rituals, there is an enduring fascination with Ancient Egypt. But now a 5,600-year-old tomb has been discovered that could shed light on a ...

The upcoming movie “The Scorpion King” is fiction, but recent archeological studies indicate there really was a King Scorpion in ancient Egypt and that he played a crucial role in uniting the country ...

Five thousand years ago in North Africa, an ambitious king, known today as Narmer, unified two lands into the world's first great territorial state—Egypt. Founder of a dynastySurveying his fallen foes ...

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Narmer, the best-attested Egyptian king from the period of state formation, reigned at a time of great social and political change, a time when the modes of self-expression and the mechanisms of rule ...

Narmer’s sharp ears pricked at the low sound. His attacker was in front — so the sound must have been made by someone who was behind. His senses were on full alert; he spread out his hands. The ...