Meet Tetinebefou—the wizard-doctor, priest, and royal dentist—whose newly discovered tomb reveals dazzling secrets about health and society 4,000 years ago.

While many people are fixated on the future, there’s still plenty that we don’t know about the past. After all, our planet ...

History remembers him as a heretic, but the truth is a high-stakes game of survival. At just 12 years old, the young Pharaoh Akhenaten launched a daring psychological war against the corrupt religious ...

Archaeologists in Luxor uncover coffins linked to the Singers of Amun, offering insight into temple rituals, burial practices ...

How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum.

“Consider some examples of faithful men and women who trusted God, confident that His promised blessings would be upon them in life or in death. Their faith was based not on what God did or did not do ...

CT scanners are designed to diagnose the living – mapping broken bones, blocked arteries, and hidden tumors with remarkable precision. But when the same technology is turned toward the ancient past, ...

Groundbreaking CT scans have unveiled the hidden health struggles of an ancient Egyptian priest. These scans reveal that, more than 2,000 years ago, this priest lived with chronic back pain, much like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Summer Decker, PHD, (left) 3D Imaging Lead for Keck Medicine of USC, and Diane Perlov, PHD, (right), Senior Vice President for ...

High-resolution imaging conducted at USC reveals evidence of chronic pain, dental disease and possible surgical intervention in two ancient priests.

USC radiologists unraveled some of ancient history’s mysteries recently when they conducted full-body CT scans of two Egyptian mummies whose bodies have been preserved for more than 2,200 years. Keck ...