mummies

Valuable artefacts and mummies that date back two millennia were uncovered in southern Egypt, authorities confirmed on April 23. The Ministry of Antiquities-Arab Republic of Egypt confirmed an ancient tomb had ...

Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered an ancient burial site containing 50 mummies dating back to the Ptolemaic era in ...

Dusting off 15 Roman-era Egyptian mummy portraits—mostly untouched for 100 years—has revealed a 2,000-year-old surprise.

A BBC documentary shows scientists revealing that most of the 800 ancient Egyptian animal mummies they scanned do ...

World's oldest mummies have started to decay.

It was not too long ago that mummies were used in unconventional ways—as drugs, as entertainment, and perhaps ...

Preserved in the hot dry desert of Egypt may be one of the largest grave sites ever discovered.

Strange occurrences have been said to eddy around an ancient Egyptian artifact, known as the "Unlucky Mummy," since ...

Over 1,000 years ago, a practice was pioneered by a Japanese priest named Kukai, which was intended to ...

Scientists have put three unusually motionless patients through the CT scanner: Egyptian mummies.

Preserved by ice, the ancient woman, who died at the age of 25 and is covered in tattoos, ...

In March 2003, the body of a man who lived during the Iron Age was discovered in a ...

At first, it appeared to be a typical Bronze Age discovery, but the researchers soon discovered that the ...

scientific evidence has shown that prehistoric Egyptians experimented with techniques to preserve bodies around 4000BC, some 1,500 years ...

No one knows for sure who these people were and how they ended up in the bogs thousands ...

When describing the discovery of an ancient love letter placed upon the body of a loved one, Chris ...