5,000-year-old discovery rewrites history of ancient Egyptian technology ...

"Egyptian craftspeople mastered reliable rotary drilling more than two millennia before some of the best-preserved drill sets." ...

Researchers have identified the earliest known "mechanically sophisticated" drill found in association with ancient Egyptian ...

Researchers have identified what may be the earliest known metal drill from ancient Egypt-and it was hidden in plain sight.

A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested. Researchers at Newcastle University, and the Academy of Fine Arts, ...

However, careful reexaminations indicate the “little awl” is far more significant than originally believed—so much so that it ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.

Astronomy and astrology were deeply intertwined in ancient civilizations, particularly in Egypt and Mesopotamia, where early astronomers and astrologers made profound contributions that shaped the ...

Egyptian officials announced Tuesday the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, the last of the lost tombs of the kings of ancient Egypt's Eighteenth Dynasty, which reigned for over two centuries ...

Installation view of "Divine Egypt," now open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through January 2026 Anna-Marie Kellen / Courtesy of the Met This fall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is taking ...

LOST MANUSCRIPT OF FRÉDÉRIC CAILLIAUD : ARTS AND CRAFTS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS NUBIANS AND ETHIOPIANS TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY ANDREW BEDNARSKI WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY PHILIPPE MAINTEROT ...

A small metal object discovered more than a century ago is changing what scientists know about ancient Egyptian technology. Researchers from Newcastle University and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna ...