The team examined the ink's chemical makeup with a combination of three ... which was the only known prominent ancient Egyptian library that had survived over time. The researchers selected ...

Archaeologists in Rome have discovered beautiful, ancient paint—but not just any paint. Known as “Egyptian Blue,” it’s among the oldest synthetic pigments in the world, with the newly found ingot ...

Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the deceased speak in the afterlife. The modern-day discovery of ancient golden artifacts in Egyptian tombs can be rare ...

In 1862, an American antiquities dealer was in an Egyptian marketplace, squinting at a scroll. The scroll was written in hieratic, a type of ancient Egyptian cursive, and the dealer, Edwin Smith, wasn ...