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.

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.

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

The discovery was made near the remains of a mummified adult lion, which was found underneath the Saqqara necropolis in 2004.

Egyptian mummies have always been a subject of ... and here are some fascinating facts about it... The ancient Egyptians believed that mummification was a key process in the after-life of the ...

A GROUNDBREAKING discovery of two mummies has revealed a previously unknown human ancestor from over 7,000 years ago. The ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered a huge tomb belonging to one of ancient Egypt’s earliest pharaohs. But with no mummy left inside the identity of the fallen king remains a mystery. The ...

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.” ...

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 ...