To make a papyrus trinket box, you need papyrus sheets, scissors, glue, and a ruler. Papyrus sheets can be easily found in art supply stores or online. Scissors are needed to cut the sheets into ...

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...

Before they arrived in your art box, watercolours had a much older, messier life. Thousands of years ago, cave painters in places like Spain and India would cru ...

Archaeologists in central Egypt reported finding a 43‑ to 49‑foot, well‑preserved papyrus in a New Kingdom tomb, underscoring ...

Archaeologists have found 5,000-year-old ancient Egyptian rock art in the Sinai Desert that depicts the conquest of the ...

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

On the criteria that matter to medicine—not later industrial power— Africa led . Medicine does not exist in isolation. It depends on cities, sanitation, governance, and trade. Africa’s medical ...

China’s Sailun Group has begun construction on a $1 billion tire plant in Egypt’s Suez Canal Economic Zone (SCZone), one of the largest Chinese industrial investments in the country. Walid Gamal ...

On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled tree twists toward the sky. It is Methuselah, a Great ...

Egypt is studying the establishment of a gold extraction plant at the Iqat mine in the Eastern Desert, in cooperation with Wealth and Resources Mining Company, the mine’s contractor, the Ministry of ...

The mummies tested in the study spanned almost the entire history of ancient Egypt, ranging from 2000 BCE to 295 CE. On the whole, the researchers found that mummies from the same historical period ...

The complete genome of an ancient Egyptian has been sequenced, revealing genetic links between the Nile and Mesopotamia 5,000 ...