The Turin papyrus map is over 3000 years old. More than 100 years of study mainly by egyptologists and by some geologists demonstrate that it shows workings in a known ancient mining and quarrying ...

ABU ZAWAL, Egypt — If you’re searching for gold in Egypt’s Eastern Desert, you should bring water, a spare tire, an exploration geologist, and a good map. By 10:30 a.m. we’d already made use of all ...

Murder, succession and a 15 foot scroll of papyrus that reads like an ancient Egyptian episode of Law and Order. We get the lowdown on the judicial papyrus of Turin from National Geographic ...

The Turin Strike Papyrus (now held in the Museo Egizio, Turin. Cat.1880) is contemporary account of the first labour strike in recorded history, which occurred on the West Bank at Thebes during the ...

Although it remained open to the public during the reinstallations, the work's completion allows curators to display objects that were previously kept in storage. Highlights of the museum, which was ...

When attempting to piece together a picture of sexual behavior of the Egyptians during 3000 y or so before Christ, one must review literary sources and representations in relief, paintings and, above ...

According to ancient historians, gold was as common as sand in the kingdom of Egypt. By 3,200 BC public officers, called 'sementi', prospected for deposits and veins of gold to meet the demand of the ...

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. Pharaoh Ramesses III was assassinated in 1155 BCE, ...

Pharaonic rulers of Egypt were subjected to satirical criticism using words and pictures, according to Archaeologist Ahmed Salah, the head of Abu Simbel area antiquities. The expression of opinion was ...