Known as "Fred," this mummy proves that Egyptians had been using embalming practices for 1,500 years longer than scientists ...

Researchers in Poland have made a unique discovery: the remains of the first embalmed pregnant ancient Egyptian mummy, known as the “Mysterious Lady.” Dating from the 1st century BCE, this mummy was ...

Ancient Egypt is best known for the pyramids of Giza, the giant Sphinx, and mummies. However, the early Egyptians also left behind other ancient clues that we can use to learn about their daily ...

The extraordinary care with which that Bashiri mummy was wrapped suggests this person was also of great importance in ancient Egyptian society. But the identity of the corpse remains unknown ...

Three-dimensional CT scanning has been around for decades, but recent advances in image quality has allowed researchers to show ancient Egyptian mummies like never before. They can see remnants of ...

where many royal mummies—including that of Tutankhamun the "boy king"—were studied in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1998, CIT8 was relocated to the Cairo Egyptian Museum at the request of the ...

If you were asked to describe the scent emanating from an ancient Egyptian mummy like you’d discuss a high-end perfume or the bouquet of a fine wine, you might mention fragrance notes of old ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

It is a startling image from ancient Egypt – a mummy discovered during a 1935 archaeological expedition at Deir el-Bahari near Luxor of a woman with her mouth wide open in what looks like an ...

For the better part of a century, visitors to the Public Museum of Grand Rapids had flocked to the ancient Egypt display, which included not just the usual run of artifacts but also two mummies.