From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...

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French and Egyptian archaeologists exploring ancient Egypt's Tanis necropolis found a puzzling body in the tomb of a king.

November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun 's mummified remains. What followed wasn't ...

Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.

A middle-aged woman continuously shed tears before the golden mask of a young pharaoh excavated from 3,300 years of darkness.

An ancient necklace discovered with the face of King Tutankhamun on it could have revealed hidden rebirth rituals and ...

Patricia Clavin, Professor of International History at the University of Oxford, explores the cult of Egyptomania following ...

Exactly a century ago, the mummified body of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamen was unwrapped for the first time. It was three years after the discovery of his tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings by Howard ...

Analysis - November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun's mummified remains. What followed wasn't scientific triumph - it was destruction. Using hot knives and brute ...

Examination of an ancient alabaster vase in the Yale Peabody Museum’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opiates, providing the clearest evidence to date of broad opium use in ancient ...