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Curators at the Fitzwilliam Museum noticed that an image of a jackal on a 3,300-year-old Egyptian papyrus had been modified with white fluid, according to an ArtNet News report. The modified picture was found in a copy of the Book of the Dead made for a royal scribe named Ramose, whose tomb was discovered by William Flinders Petrie in 1922. The image shows Ramose placing his hands on the body of a jackal, identified as Wepwawet, a god of war and hunting. Bold, white lines had been applied to either side of the jackal's body and the upper halves of...

Some of his best discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology at University College London are currently touring the United States. "Excavating Egypt" is at the Albany Institute of History & Art through June 4... the bead-net dress that is one of two such garments that have survived from the Old Kingdom period, about 2400 B.C. Worn over another garment, it would have rattled with movement. One of Petrie's students found a box containing thousands of beads and shells in the previously robbed tomb of a girl, and they were restrung based on pictures from the period... He saw...