A deadly fungus behind the so-called curse of Tutankhamun ’s tomb can be harnessed to fight cancer, scientists have discovered. Aspergillus flavus, a toxic fungus linked to deaths in the excavations ...

Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some ...

Inca mummy discovered beneath Lima street ...

Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. "Pandora's box": Russia issues new ...

For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor ...

T he fungus Aspergillus flavus produces a class of molecules that have strong potential as future anti-leukemia drugs, ...

When people think about Egyptian discoveries, they often conjure images of pharaohs and high-ranking officials, their tombs ...

The recent discovery of dozens of 2,000 year old burials near Saqqara's necropolis has shed light on the more ordinary ...

During his official visit to Egypt, Serbian Prime Minister Djuro Matsut toured several of the country’s prominent ...

Cultural artifacts are more than historical remnants; they embody the spirit of a nation and a civilization. In recent years, ...

The scientific name for the infection, Yersinia pestis, wiped out vast swathes of Europe but this new finding means ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness in an ancient Egyptian mummy has shown the bubonic plague was around thousands of ...