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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new traveling exhibition about the ancient Egyptian Boy King Tutankhamun will open to the public in Boston starting this ...

A new traveling exhibition about the ancient Egyptian Boy King Tutankhamun will open to the public in Boston starting this February. The exhibition, titled “Discovering King Tut’s Tomb,” will launch ...

Tut's head, scanned in .62-millimeter slices to register its intricate structures, takes on eerie detail in the resulting image. With Tut's entire body similarly recorded, a team of specialists in ...

Chemical traces of opium found in an ancient Egyptian alabaster vase shows it had a widespread use. Scientists even think King Tut himself may have used the substance. The findings mean opium use ...

This redefines “high” society in ancient Egypt. Yale University researchers have found trace amounts of opium jars in an ancient Egyptian vessel, proving that opium use was widespread in the land of ...

Traces of opium found inside an ancient alabaster vase suggest drug use was common in ancient Egypt, not rare or accidental. The discovery raises the possibility that King Tut’s famous jars once held ...

The 2026 World Cup draw has thrown up some interesting matches in the group stage. England, who were in Pot 1, have been handed a rather favourable draw, paired with Croatia, Panama and Ghana as they ...

The 2026 World Cup draw is coming up in Washington DC on Friday, December 5 and countries around the globe will be waiting anxiously to find out who they will face next summer across the USA, Mexico ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...

Social media personality Michael Willis Heard, known for coining the popular “Yes King” meme, died, according to multiple outlets, which referred to a statement from a family member. Other content ...

When Howard Carter uncovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, the world believed it had witnessed the greatest archaeological discovery in history. But over a century later, the evidence inside the ...