In an archaeological first, scientists have scraped the organic residue within a 2,000-year-old head-shaped drinking vessel, called a Bes mug, to identify its past contents. Bottoms up for Bes.

The pyramids in and around Giza have presented a fascinating puzzle for millennia. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. How did ancient ...

Scholars for the first time identified chemical signatures of the components of a liquid concoction contained in a Bes mug. A new technique helped identify a sample flavored with honey, sesame seeds, ...

For decades, experts have struggled to explain how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built — but now a new study claims to have found an answer. The construction would have required ancient workers to lift ...

A comprehensive 17-year archaeological study has shattered the long-standing myth that the ancient Egyptian pyramids were built by slave labor. Instead, the research, conducted from 1993 to 2010 at ...

An intricately crafted mug depicting an ancient Egyptian deity was donated to the Tampa Museum of Art’s collections in 1984. Now, four decades later, scientists have found evidence of psychedelic ...

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Romans Babies weren't supposed to be mourned in the Roman Empire. These rare liquid-gypsum burials prove otherwise. Rivers & Oceans Colorado River may have pooled and spilled over to form the Grand ...

Each October, an expedition from the University of Chicago’s Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (ISAC) returns to Chicago House, their headquarters in Luxor, Egypt. Known as the Epigraphic ...

Egyptian alabaster vessels may have been the ancient world’s hookah. In a study published in September in the Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies, researchers identified ...

Astronomy Astronomers map one of the largest structures in the universe, hidden behind the Milky Way's 'Zone of Avoidance' Cosmology Largest-ever 3D map of the universe shows 47 million galaxies, from ...