Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History have peered beneath the wrappings of ancient Egyptian mummified human ...

For the first time, researchers were able to see inside the mummies in the Chicago Field Museum's collections. Their findings ...

In the Nile Delta, farming the redolent vine is both a tradition and a vital way to make a living.

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A team of Polish scientists say they have discovered the only known example of an embalmed pregnant Egyptian ... high-status woman, aged between 20 and 30, who died during the 1st Century BC.

Around 1850 B.C. Egyptian women mixed acacia leaves with honey ... A popular Roman writer advocated abstinence. "Womb veils," a 19th-century phrase for diaphragms cervical caps, and condoms ...

The word alchemy derives from the old name for ancient Egypt. A 19th-century illustration of the Muslim alchemist Geber (Jabir Ibn Hayyan) teaching chemistry at the school of Edessa, Greece.

France’s Crédit Agricole started in the late 19th century as an association of local ... in its home market but also in Italy, Ukraine and Egypt. As a diversified financial services company ...

The new scans helped scientists estimate that the high-status woman died in her ... In the late 19th century as archaeologists uncovered mummies in Egypt’s deserts, they would unwrap them ...