Ancient Egypt is best known for the pyramids of Giza, the giant Sphinx, and mummies. However ... that people who study ancient Egyptian history have a special name: Egyptologists.

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.

The 4,000 year old Ancient Egyptian tomb belonged to a 1,000s of years old Egyptian King, with a sacrificial table found ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that mimicked these diagnoses, researchers have concluded, settling a four ...

The best-known mummies, human and animal, are probably those that underwent elaborate embalming and burial procedures in ancient Egypt ... been practiced throughout history—by the Chinese ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history.

The museum would one day be known as the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ... mummies from NMNH collections, at the museum’s exhibition “Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt.” ...

Discover how today’s cats might trace their roots back to cult rituals in ancient Egypt.