Archaeologists at Athribis have uncovered more than 42,000 inscribed pottery shards revealing daily ancient Egyptian life. The ostraca include tax receipts, religious texts, and notes written in ...

Inscriptions found include notes on exercises by schoolchildren, religious texts, and certificates for the quality of ...

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 ...

Imagine holding a piece of broken pottery inscribed by an ancient Egyptian student practicing their letters - or a tax collector tallying grain deliveries along the Nile. Now imagine finding 43,000 ...

An unprecedented analysis of inscriptions on over 42,000 shards of pottery from an ancient Egyptian archaeological site has provided fresh insights into the lives of ordinary people two thousand years ...

"Reprinted from the National Geographic Magazine issues of October, 1941; March, 1944; November, 1946; and January, 1951." ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — The powerful gods of ancient ...