“Our findings combined with prior research indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

Learn how residue trapped inside a Xerxes-era alabaster jar revealed a long-overlooked tradition of opium in ancient Egypt.

King Tutankhamun's tomb is at risk of collapsing due to structural integrity issues, and one researcher from the University ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum's Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, ...

Egypt has opened the Grand Egyptian Museum, a massive new archaeological museum. It showcases over 100,000 artefacts spanning ...

Perhaps the museum’s biggest draw will be its massive collection related to King Tutankhamun, the boy Pharaoh who ruled Egypt ...

The museum’s most anticipated exhibit is the full 5,500 items from King Tutankhamen’s tomb. Egyptians say it’s time to ...

Visitors to the new museum will be able to view the entire contents of Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time since its ...

The morning light spread across the Saqqara plateau as archaeologists brushed away layers of sand, revealing a tomb that had ...

Few stories intertwine history and myth as dramatically as the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb; and the fate of the man who sponsored its discovery ...

Christian Grosse, professor of non-destructive testing at TUM, explained that following the discovery of an unknown chamber ...

JUST one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still stands – with the rest lost to plunder, fire, earthquakes and the ...