CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's ministry of tourism and antiquities unveiled a renovated wing of its oldest museum Monday, home to a 16-meter (52-foot) -long scroll unearthed last year. The refurbishment marks ...

Archaeologists working in Egypt have brought to light a remarkably preserved funerary papyrus that specialists are already ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 52-foot-long (16 meters) papyrus containing sections from the Book of the Dead. The more than 2,000-year-old document was found within a coffin in a tomb ...

Carefully placed inside an ancient Egyptian coffin sat a rolled-up papyrus. While pharaohs came and went, empires rose and fell, the Nile flooded and receded, the papyrus remained unchanged and ...

The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square is hosting a new exhibition that reintroduces papyrus, one of Egypt’s most ancient ...

For the first time in a hundred years, archaeologists excavating in Saqqara, Egypt, have discovered a 16-meter-long ancient papyrus, as reported first by Arkeonews. A woman looks at papyrus on March 6 ...

Researchers have revealed the fascinating contents of a 1,500-year-old Egyptian papyrus, which was uncovered near the pyramid of Pharaoh Senusret I in 1934. The papyrus contains formulas for prayers ...

Archaeologists have stumbled upon what is thought to be the most ancient harbor ever found in Egypt, along with the country's oldest collection of papyrus documents, Egyptian authorities say. The ...

Ancient Egypt had far more venomous snakes than the country does today, according to a new study of a scroll. How much can the written records of ancient civilizations tell us about the animals they ...