The Egyptian Museum in Cairo’s Tahrir Square is bringing history to life with an exhibition exploring food in ancient Egypt, ...

Ancient Egyptian person: Well it’s not! We need to know exactly when the river will flood, so that we plant our crops at the right time. That way, we can take advantage of all the nutrients left ...

DR JOANN FLETCHER:Welcome to Pa-Demi, an ancient Egyptian village where nobody's lived for over 3,000 years. An yet, believe it or not, it was once really busy, teeming with life, a very noisy ...

Running for three months in Hall 43 on the upper floor, the exhibit is accessible at no additional cost beyond the regular ...

A crumb of bread entombed thousands of years ago alongside an ancient Egyptian mummy has been discovered among a collection of previously uncatalogued items. The microscopic morsel was unearthed ...

Before commercial yeast became available, the primary method for making tall and airy loaves was to bake sourdough. The ...

According to the Bible, the 10th plague to befall Ancient Egypt killed the first born child of every family. Now, new scientific evidence suggests that this may have actually occurred - and that a ...

A volunteer sorting old microscope slides at a Leeds museum stumbled upon 3,000-year-old bread crumbs from Egypt. Photo from Leeds City Council While sorting through some overlooked archive ...