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A discovery in Egypt has provided an extraordinary glimpse into the ancient art of winemaking. Archaeologists recently ...
Jars of wine, some still sealed, were discovered in an Egyptian queen's tomb from 5,000 years ago. Scientists say the excavation from Egypt's first royal cemetery at Abydos reveals secrets.
Anthony Slayter-Ralph explores the history behind an ancient Egyptian canopic jar. In a preview from Denver, Hour 3, things get wild when Anthony Slayter-Ralph explores the history behind an ...
­­Jars holding the innards of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman from roughly 3,500 years ago contain hints of one of the most complex mummification balms of that era, a new study shows.
Researchers have recreated the scent of an ancient Egyptian mummification balm that was used to preserve a noblewoman more than 3,500 years ago. ... In the jar used to store Senetnay’s lungs, ...
The cache includes about 370 large pottery storage vessels; a team of experts is now being assembled to determine what liquids or materials these jars held and how the ancient Egyptians may have ...
Canopic jars were vessels used by the ancient Egyptians to store the organs removed from the body in the process of mummification—the lungs, liver, intestines and stomach—in order to preserve ...
A few years ago, a team of archaeologists cleaning sand from an ancient Egyptian tomb discovered a group of broken jars, one of them containing a mysterious white substance. Archaeologists Find ...
Ancient Egyptians Oldest and most complete ancient Egyptian human genome ever sequenced reveals ties to Mesopotamia Archaeology 5,000-year-old burial of elite woman with inlaid toucan's beak found ...