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An ornate Bronze Age treasure that may have featured in an ancient Nordic religious ceremony What it tells us about the past: More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, ...
In an exhibition on ancient Egyptian-inspired fashion at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a relief depicts the wife of Amenhotep wearing a kalasiris, or long linen dress, juxtaposed with a white ...
Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.
Travel back in time thousands of year to the banks of the Nile, where you can learn all about the ancient Egyptian civilisation with this year 3/4 BBC Bitesize history guide.
With the complex and precise mummification method and the way the linen was wrapped around the mummy, archaeologists were unable to unravel the linen because of the difficulty of re-wrapping it again ...
In a recent study, my colleagues and I revealed extraordinary details about the final hours in the life of a crocodile that was mummified by the ancient Egyptian embalmers.
How ancient Egyptians—from kings to commoners—strived for eternal life Pharaohs weren't the only ones mummified. Sacred rites and rituals could guide any Egyptian through the afterlife.
The world's oldest known dress is a simple V-necked garment that was overlooked as rags for decades.