AS Christmas approaches - a season of shopping sprees, awkward family gatherings, and overeating - it seems fitting to ...

Ancient Egyptian society was more accepting and inclusive of disability than many contemporary societies. Disabled people ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered intriguing artifacts in an excavation in Egypt, including golden "tongues" and "nails," ...

MORE than a dozen Egyptian mummies embellished with gold tongues and fingernails have been uncovered by archaeologists. Surrounded by ancient amulets, the colourful 2,000-year-old tombs were found ...

On the chest, the decorations depicted a necklace from which hung the head of a falcon - the symbol of the god Horus. Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities The remains of a cartonnage that encased a ...

The third (above) appears to show the Egyptian god Horus with a sun disk above his hawk head. Horus was the god of the sun, sky, and kingship, and his engraving on the interior walls of the Temple ...

A Spanish-Egyptian team of archaeologists has found a three-chamber burial site with fresh wall paintings, amulets, and ...

Archaeologists have discovered two ancient tombs in Egypt containing the mummies of a man and woman with golden tongues and ...