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Huge Trove of Ancient Egyptian Memos Uncovered

Pottery shards were inscribed with receipts, notes about daily life, homework

(Newser) - Archaeologists have uncovered a huge trove of notes written on the Ancient Egyptian equivalent of scrap paper. A German-Egyptian team says it has uncovered more than 43,000 inscribed pottery and limestone fragments—essentially 2,000-year-old receipts, memos, and homework—from an archaeological site west of the Nile, Gizmodo reports....

Pharaoh's Temple to the Sun Unearthed

Fifth Dynasty sun worship complex later became a settlement, archaeologists say

(Newser) - Archaeologists in Egypt say they've uncovered a massive 4,400-year-old sun temple tied to an ancient pharaoh—one of only two such structures ever found. An Italian team, working with Egypt's antiquities ministry, uncovered more than half of the long-buried temple of King Nyuserre, a lesser-known pharaoh of...

2K Years Before Superyachts, Ancient Egypt Had These

Archaeologists believe they've uncovered first example of a luxury thalamegos

(Newser) - Ancient Egyptian art and texts tell of wealthy elite traveling along the Nile on luxury pleasure boats known as the thalamegos, basically early versions of modern superyachts. Now, archaeologists believe they've uncovered one for the very first time. Marine archaeologist Franck Goddio and his team have documented a 35-meter-long...

Egypt Unveils Massive New Museum
Egypt Unveils
Massive New Museum
Nov 3, 2025 2:54 PM CST

Egypt Unveils Massive New Museum

Long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum has space for 50K artifacts

(Newser) - In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt inaugurated its long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum on Saturday, a megaproject aiming to give the country's millennia-old heritage a rich, modern display. Two decades in the making, the museum located...

King Tut's Treasures Are Finally Reunited

More than 5K artifacts from boy king's tomb to be showcased at Grand Egyptian Museum

(Newser) - For the first time since Howard Carter uncovered Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, all of the boy pharaoh's treasures are back under one roof. The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, poised for its grand opening on Saturday, is putting more than 5,300 artifacts from King Tut's tomb...

Another Ancient Egyptian Treasure Is Stolen

Limestone relief reportedly cut from the wall of a sealed Fifth Dynasty tomb

(Newser) - A 4,000-year-old limestone relief has mysteriously disappeared from a sealed tomb in Egypt's famed Saqqara Necropolis, raising fresh questions about the security of the nation's ancient treasures. The artifact, which dates back to Egypt's Fifth Dynasty (circa 2500 to 2350 BC), was taken from the...

Feds Seize Ancient Egyptian Artifacts En Route to Maryland

14 smuggled relics, some mislabeled as home decor, will now return home

(Newser) - US authorities have secured the forfeiture of a cache of ancient Egyptian treasures that were smuggled into the country, disguised as ordinary home decor. The US Attorney's Office in Baltimore announced Monday that a federal court in Maryland finalized the forfeiture after a default judgment. The 14 artifacts—...

Researchers Unlock Ancient Egyptian Man's DNA

Craftsman was buried in a pottery vessel 4.5K years ago

(Newser) - Sealed in a pottery vessel for over 4,500 years, the skeleton of an ancient Egyptian craftsman has now yielded the first complete genome from Egypt's Old Kingdom, offering a rare genetic window into the dawn of the Age of the Pyramids. The remains were found in 1902...

Egypt's Latest Royal Tomb Is a Mystery

Abydos tomb, some 3.6K years old, has been stripped of identifiers of its occupant

(Newser) - Egypt has announced the discovery of its second royal tomb in the same year. Weeks after revealing the discovery of King Thutmose II's tomb , archaeologists unveiled the discovery of a looted tomb belonging to another pharaoh, who remains unidentified. The tomb was found at a necropolis in Abydos, one...

Turns Out, Ancient Mummies Smell Kind of Nice
Scent of Ancient Mummies
May Surprise You
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Feb 22, 2025 11:30 AM CST

Scent of Ancient Mummies May Surprise You

It's pleasant, not rancid, scientists report

(Newser) - Soon, visitors to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo will be able to catch a whiff of humans who died thousands of years ago. A new study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society suggests they might be pleasantly surprised. Researchers extracted scents from inside the sarcophagi of nine mummies...

Egypt Uncovers First Royal Tomb in a Century

But tomb of King Thutmose II was flooded, raided in antiquity

(Newser) - Archaeologists have made a stunning discovery: the first royal tomb to be found in Egypt since King Tutankhamun's in 1922—though unlike Tut's tomb, this one is in rough shape. The entrance and main passage of the poorly-preserved tomb in the Wadi Gabbanat el-Qurud, southwest of the Valley...

Archaeologists Unearth an Ancient Egyptian Tomb

Site near Luxor was used for 11 burials

(Newser) - Archeologists from Egypt and the United States unearthed an ancient tomb with 11 sealed burials near the famed city of Luxor, Egyptian authorities said. Egypt's Tourism and Antiquities Ministry said the tomb, which dates back to the Middle Kingdom (1938BC to 1630BC), was found in the South Asasif necropolis,...

When Humans First Treated Cancer Just Got a Big Update

Cut marks around brain lesions in 4K-year-old Egyptian skull suggest surgical intervention

(Newser) - A new study describes a potential awe-inspiring achievement of the ancient Egyptian civilization far apart from the pyramids. According to the research, ancient Egyptians may have been the first to explore and treat cancer. The finding is based on two skulls discovered in Giza and held at the University of...

How Were the Pyramids Built? A Lost Branch of the Nile

Researchers map extinct Nile branch that flowed past 31 known pyramids

(Newser) - Part of the mystery behind the construction of Egypt's ancient pyramids is that the vast majority were erected in places that now appear far from the aiding hand of the Nile river. According to new research, there's a simple explanation: We can't see what is now extinct....

Debate Rages Over Netflix's Black Cleopatra

Some Egyptian experts are fuming over what they say is a false portrayal

(Newser) - Jada Pinkett Smith, executive producer and narrator of the new Netflix drama-documentary series Queen Cleopatra , says it was "really important for me" to highlight "stories about Black queens," per the Guardian . The series premiering May 10 certainly portrays the last pharoah of Egypt as Black, with mixed-race...

Newly Unearthed Sphinx May Have Face of Roman Emperor

It was found in a temple south of Cairo

(Newser) - Archaeologists have unearthed a Sphinx-like statue and the remains of a shrine in an ancient temple in southern Egypt, antiquities authorities said Monday. The artifacts were found in the temple of Dendera in Qena Province, 280 miles south of Cairo, the Antiquities Ministry said in a statement. Archaeologists believe the...

'Time Machine' Unearthed on Ancient Egypt's Mummies

Embalming workshop found in 2016 offers hints on the mummification process

(Newser) - For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians mummified their dead in the search for eternal life. Now, researchers have used chemistry and an unusual collection of jars to figure out how they did it. Their study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature , is based on a rare archaeological find: an embalming...

Gold-Covered Mummy Was Undisturbed for 4.3K Years

It 'may be the oldest and most complete mummy found in Egypt to date'

(Newser) - Since 2,300BC, a time when a few mammoths still walked the Earth, the gold-covered mummy of a man named Hekashepes lay in a limestone sarcophagus at the bottom of a shaft 50 feet deep, undisturbed by grave robbers. Egyptian archaeologists say the lid of the sarcophagus, one of several...

In Egypt, an 'Increasingly Rare' Find

First complete papyrus to be found in a century will be displayed at Cairo's new museum

(Newser) - From one of 250 wooden sarcophagi uncovered last year at Egypt's famed necropolis of Saqqara comes the first complete papyrus scroll discovered in a century. And it's a long one. The scroll containing sections of the Book of the Dead stretches 52 feet long, per Live Science . The...

Tomb Dating to Dynasty That Included Tut Is Unearthed

Archaeologists find it in Luxor, Egypt

(Newser) - Archaeologists in Egypt appear to have discovered another tomb belonging to an ancient royal. An Egyptian-British team discovered it in the city of Luxor on the west bank of the Nile, in the area of the famous Valley of the Kings and Valley of the Queens, reports AFP . A government...

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