Egypt established the arrangement that essentially a flat tax of 20 percent was levied during the preceding non-crisis period to prepare for their coming disaster. The management of that ...

A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian ...

The tombs of three prominent statesmen from the New Kingdom era (1539 to 1077 BCE) have been uncovered in Luxor, according to ...

One tomb belonged to Amum-em-Ipet, who lived during the Ramesside period (as the 19th and 20th Dynasties, the last two of the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have unveiled the millennia-old tombs of three senior statesmen, identified by inscriptions left on ...

Once upon a time, there were two stories of famine. One recent, in Russia, and artificially created by Joseph Stalin. The other was in Ancient Egypt, in the days of the Pharaoh who was lucky to ...

Archaeologists have unearthed three ancient tombs in Egypt dating back over 3,500 years to the New Kingdom. The Ministry of ...

Are these emaciated Egyptians during a time of desperate famine? Perhaps ... change affected a society as large and complex as ancient Egypt remains hard to judge. “We need to think a lot ...

Crops failed and famine followed with thousands of Ancient Egyptian people starving to death. In good times though the river was home to many different species of animals and birds, lots of which ...