Objects that were believed to have some form of magic effect are part of an exhibition exploring how ancient cultures tried to change the world around them ...

Archaeologists have discovered the "richly decorated" tomb of an ancient Egyptian dignitary that is filled with magic spells aimed at protecting against snake bites. The tomb, thought to date to the ...

Ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman texts describe detailed spells meant to make a person invisible. These rituals involved disturbing ingredients, including parts taken from the violently dead. To ...

Carefully placed inside an ancient Egyptian coffin sat a rolled-up papyrus. While pharaohs came and went, empires rose and fell, the Nile flooded and receded, the papyrus remained unchanged and ...

Indiana Jones famously fears slithering snakes in Egyptian tombs—and apparently, so did one ancient, high-ranking dignitary. Archaeologists recently discovered a 2,500-year-old burial chamber adorned ...