Arguments still rage about how the pyramids were built, but a new discovery has taken giant steps toward the incredible truth ...

The Egyptian blue lotus sold online isn't what you think. The real story behind this mythical plant is much more interesting though.

The blue lotus, a captivating water lily entwined with Egyptian mythology, has long dazzled archaeologists and historians.

he learned of the Egyptian blue lotus's prominence through classes and ancient artifacts kept at Berkeley's own Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology. As he learned to read hieroglyphs, he came to ...

Scientists are using light 10 billion times brighter than the Sun to decipher scrolls buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD79. A team at Diamond Light Source in Oxfordshire are working to read ...

Archaeologists have discovered the large limestone burial chamber of an unidentified ancient Egyptian pharaoh near the city ...

Credit: Vesuvius Challenge The Herculaneum Papyri, an ancient scroll fossilized by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD, is now decipherable, thanks to an open-source AI project. Computer science ...

What were Egyptian hieroglyphs? The ancient Egyptians left behind written records on their buildings and on papyrus scrolls but how do we know what the writing means? What did the ancient ...

New software tools have enabled scientists to read an ancient, damaged Hebrew scroll without ever unfurling the fragile, disintegrating parchment. The digitization techniques, known as "volume ...

This is the Rosetta Stone. It is made from granite and it has three sets of inscriptions carved into it: Demotic, Hieroglyphs and ancient Greek. The broken top and bottom edges suggest it was part ...

Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue ... and its flowers often adorn ancient papyri scrolls. Scholars have long hypothesized that the lilies, when soaked in wine ...