Every year brings new discoveries from ancient Egypt and 2024 was no exception. In this countdown, Live Science takes a look ...

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Usually transmitted by fleas hitching a ride on rodents, the bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, and initially ...

Piye became the first pharaoh of Egypt’s 25th dynasty (ca 770-656 ... only to be forced farther south at the beginning of the sixth century B.C., when Pharaoh Psamtek II, part of the 26th ...

In a sixth-century Egyptian monastery’s library, high-tech imaging of parchments reveals thousands of pages of hidden text. This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic ...

An Egyptian archaeological team discovered the remains of the sixth-century-B.C. structure three ... now called Tell ...