Mediterranean herbs and spices such as basil ... or blended into dips and salad dressings. This ancient herb was so revered in Egypt that the leaves were used when entombing the pharaohs.

Researchers have recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian blue, which was used in ancient Egypt about 5,000 years ago.

So the ancient Egyptians sheathed mummies in gold ... include enormous statues of pharaohs and miniatures of the boat used for transport into the afterlife. The items loaned by the Egyptian government ...

STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink.But according to scientists researching ...

Al-Ahram Weekly takes a trip back to ancient Egyptian times to find out what the people used to eat What the ancient Egyptians ate in the distant past has some similarity to what the modern ...

For being the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment, the original recipes for Egyptian blue remain a mystery. The ...

Together they take a look at an unfinished tomb and examine some of the tools that would have been used to build it ... precious jewellery. The afterlife in Ancient Egypt. videoThe afterlife ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists in Egypt are unraveling the secrets of an ancient military site used during the Ptolemaic dynasty and the Roman era. The fortress ...

Every year ancient Egyptians eagerly anticipated the coming ... the chapel housed the sacred bark of Amun when not in use for Opet or other festivals. Following the queen's death, her chapel ...

The items spanned centuries and included a range of styles from different eras of ancient Egyptian civilization, the ministry said. Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced on Monday ...