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From crumbling steel to personal artifacts, each item tells a story — and one PEOPLE reporter recently got an up close and ...
TowTV Episode #26 shows what happens when preparation meets surprise. The team arrives to find a far more complicated recovery than planned.
In a press conference held on Tuesday afternoon, Iran’s Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, Seyyed Reza ...
Recovery efforts for the stolen artefacts, which include gold jewellery and gems, are ongoing, said George Osborne, the museum’s Chair of Trustees, on earlier this week.
Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...
DNA obtained from the remains of a man who lived in ancient Egypt around the time the first pyramids were built is providing ...
From the New Kingdom (ca. 1550–1070 b.c.) through the Ptolemaic and Roman periods—a span of more than 2,000 years—ceramic vessels in the shape of Bes’ head circulated throughout Egypt.
This major milestone comes four decades after initial efforts by Nobel laureate Svante Pääbo to recover ancient Egyptian DNA ...
As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...
Carved in the Middle Kingdom (2034 – 1650 BC), the funerary bed shows Osiris in mummy form while Isis, a vigilant kite, hovers above. Lion-headed legs and paws stand guard, keeping watch over love ...
1- Once adorning the mummy of Hekaemsaf, Overseer of the Royal Fleet under King Amasis (Ahmose II) during Egypt’s 26th Dynasty, this exquisite funerary net was uncovered at Saqqara. It features a ...