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More than five millennia ago, an Egyptian weaver created a simple, tailored linen dress, likely not realizing just how long it would stick around. The Tarkhan Dress, carbon-dated to 3482 to 3102 B.C., ...
The eleven bodies were believed to have belonged to an important family in the Middle Kingdom period when pharaohs Amenemhet ...
Soon, the elaborately decorated artifact will be transferred to the brand new Grand Egyptian Museum, joining more than 5,000 ...
It doesn’t matter what the rest of it is, which was really quite surprising to us,” said John McCloy, director of Washington ...
The Penn Museum has been involved in archaeological research in Egypt for more than a century. Most of the material in the ...