The potter's wheel was widely used by the beginning of the third phase of the Early Bronze Age, about 2400 BCE. Pottery cannot be made by ... The first evidence of the potter's wheel was found in ...

A new study reveals that ancient Egyptian coffins contain star maps matching the Milky Way, offering insight into their ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...

The glorious river of stars, interwoven with dark dust, that makes up the plane of the Milky Way in the night sky may have ...

A tomb painting of a colossal statue being moved shows how huge ... The Greek historian Heroditus reported in the fifth century BCE that his Egyptian guides told him 100,000 men were employed for ...

Ruling sometime around 2600-2566 BCE, Khufu was a member of the Fourth ... of art that people think of when they imagine Ancient Egyptian art. The walls are undecorated except for workers' graffiti.

Many fine examples of wooden and clay mechanical string toys have been found in the tombs of Ancient Egypt. The original of this particular wooden crocodile is believed to be from 1100 BCE and is on ...

Today, nearly 1,000 Fayum paintings exist in collections in Egypt ... the portraits lingered in a sort of classification limbo, considered Egyptian by Greco-Roman scholars and Greco-Roman by ...