“Our findings combined with prior research indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

A 22-centimeter alabaster vase, inscribed to the Persian king Xerxes I, has revealed that narcotics were part of everyday ...

“Our findings, combined with prior research, indicate that opium use was more than accidental or sporadic in ancient Egyptian ...

Opium use may have been a “fixture of daily life” for Ancient Egyptians, according to a new study.Experts from the Yale Peabody Museum uncovered traces of the addictive narcotic after becoming curious ...

This suggests similar alabaster vessels from the time period—often made from soft calcite stone and used for perfumes and ...

Florida might seem about as far from modern-day Egypt as possible - and just a few thousand years from the end of the sprawling Ancient Egyptian Empire.

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the remains of what they believe was a large 3,400-year-old town dating to the New Kingdom. The discovery sheds new light on a lesser-known region of Egypt, ...

Egyptologist Dr Joann Fletcher discovers what life was really like for ordinary Egyptians 3,500 years ago, during the height of the incredible civilisation of ancient Egypt. Joann explores how people ...