After 20 years of development, The Grand Egyptian Museum brings ancient Egypt back to life. Following two decades of setbacks ...

Cleopatra’s Needle in London is seen from the Thames. Credit: Ktulucommonswiki. CC BY SA 3.0 “Cleopatra’s Needle” evokes the romanticism of the famous Egyptian queen. However, like some click-bate ...

A skull once thought to be Cleopatra’s sister Arsinoë IV was identified as that of a Roman boy with developmental disorders, ending decades of speculation. The search for Arsinoë IV’s remains now ...

A team of researchers in Peru looked at tattoos on more than 100 mummified bodies from the Chancay culture, which inhabited the region from 900 to 1533. Michael Pittman, a paleobiologist at the ...

"Two years ago Judyta Bąk, a PhD student of a colleague at Institute of Archaeology at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, reached out to ask if our technology could be used to improve study of ...

Tattoos were a prevalent art form in pre-Hispanic South America, as attested by the discovery of mummified human remains in the region with preserved skin decoration that date back centuries ...

Cleopatra Selene II had a turbulent life from the beginning. Born to Cleopatra and Mark Antony amid their alliance following Julius Caesar’s assassination, Cleopatra Selene II entered the world during ...

Called the Chancay, they left behind a wealth of cultural remains, including intricate tattoos that are preserved to this day on the skin of mummified individuals. New details of these tattoos ...

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(file) A mystery dating back nearly a century about a skull believed to belong to Cleopatra's murdered half-sister has been solved using modern DNA analysis and radiocarbon dating. The skull ...

It was long speculated that it could be the remains of Arsino IV, the sister of the famous Cleopatra. However, the latest anthropological analyses show that the remains are those of a boy between ...

She was the sister of Queen Cleopatra VII and the kings Ptolemy XIII ... Related: A gold-laced mummy could be the ‘oldest and most complete’ specimen found in Egypt. ] According to the team ...