Ancient Egyptian skulls studied at the Duckworth Laboratory Collection at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. have shown signs of varying lesions, some believed to be left by malignant tumors ...

Ancient Egyptians were exceptionally skilled in medicine for their time. They could identify, describe, and treat a variety of diseases and traumatic injuries, build prosthetics, and even put in ...

Paleontologists uncovered the skull in 2020 in the Fayum Depression of Egypt’s Western Desert. - Courtesy Hesham Sallam “I think of them as like really beefy wolverines or basically like pitbulls.

In 2025, scientists achieved a remarkable breakthrough by sequencing the complete genome of an ancient Egyptian male whose ...

ANALYSIS: The harmful and racist foundations of craniometry have now been discredited, reports Elise Smith, but it had ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- For the better part of a century, visitors to the Public Museum of Grand Rapids had flocked to the ancient Egypt display, which included not just the usual run of artifacts ...

Archaeologists have announced a rare and extraordinary discovery made in the Egyptian desert. Scientists found the nearly complete skull of a new 30-million-year-old “top apex” predator.

Animal mummification in ancient Egypt was a carefully organized practice that connected spiritual beliefs with economic ...

The ancient tomb was found buried in a cemetery in Assiut, Egypt around 240 miles south of Cairo Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and covers ...

Egypt has successfully recovered 13 looted antiquities: 10 from the UK and 3 from Germany as part of a comprehensive strategy ...

Some ancient Egyptians lived well into their 80s, she said, and differences between a 55-year-old and an 85-year-old could be considerable. Nonetheless, Dr. Austin praised the researchers’ approach.