Egyptian

3,300 year-old Egyptian bone whistle discovered at 18th Dynasty city of Akhenaten

The phalanx bone whistle. The blue arrow indicates termite damage. Background featuring the Main City. Credit: Michelle Langley A recent study by Michelle Langley, Anna Stevens, and Christopher Stimpson, which was conducted as part of the Amarna Project through the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, has identified a bone whistle recovered from

Rebecka Fetzer September 29, 2025

How the last meal of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian crocodile was brought back to life using modern science

The ancient crocodile was mummified, probably as an offering to Sobek. Credit: Lidija McKnight, Author provided What do you think of when you think about ancient Egyptian mummies? Perhaps your mind takes you back to a school trip to the museum, when you came face to face with a mummified person inside a glass case.

Johnathon Motsinger August 4, 2024

Discovery may explain why Egyptian pyramids were built along long-lost Ahramat branch of the Nile

The water course of the ancient Ahramat Branch borders a large number of pyramids dating from the Old Kingdom to the Second Intermediate Period, spanning between the Third Dynasty and the Thirteenth Dynasty. Credit: Eman Ghoneim Some 31 pyramids in Egypt, including the Giza pyramid complex, may originally have been built along a 64-km-long branch

Zonia Mayoral May 17, 2024

The ancient Egyptian goddess of the sky: How a researcher used modern astronomy to explore her link with the Milky Way

Editors’ notes This article has been reviewed according to Science X’s editorial process and policies. Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content’s credibility: fact-checked trusted source written by researcher(s) proofread by Or Graur, The Conversation Credit: CC0 Public Domain What did our ancestors think when they looked up at the night sky?

Larisa Schildgen May 12, 2024

What would an ancient Egyptian corpse have smelled like? Pine, balsam and bitumen, if you were nobility

Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Credit: Christian Tepper In 1900—some 22 years before he discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen—British archaeologist Howard Carter opened another tomb in the Valley of the Kings. In tomb KV42, Carter found the remains of a noblewoman called Senetnay, who died around 1450 BCE. More than a century later, a French perfumer

Laine Haslett September 2, 2023

3,300 year-old Egyptian bone whistle discovered at 18th Dynasty city of Akhenaten

How the last meal of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian crocodile was brought back to life using modern science

Discovery may explain why Egyptian pyramids were built along long-lost Ahramat branch of the Nile

The ancient Egyptian goddess of the sky: How a researcher used modern astronomy to explore her link with the Milky Way

What would an ancient Egyptian corpse have smelled like? Pine, balsam and bitumen, if you were nobility

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