An Egyptian mummy reveals that the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death terrorized Europe. Researchers analyzed an Egyptian mummy from a museum in ...

The article explores the significance of Egyptian mummies, especially those of prominent figures like Tutankhamun, Ramesses II, Hatshepsut, Amenhotep III, and Seti I, in providing insights into ...

Back in ancient times, the world of medicine was filled with odd remedies and strange cures that claimed to tackle […] ...

Warren Dawson have written a very interesting and useful book on mummies, which appears in a ... besides a sketch of the history of the practice in Egypt which, being written by the chief ...

Centuries after the first golden coffins were taken to Europe, ancient Egyptian mummies still vividly capture people’s imaginations. Perhaps we’re awed by the grandeur of their rituals and tradition.

Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...

The ancient Egyptians employed a host of exotic ingredients ... period and six centuries after pharaoh Tutankhamen – whose mummy and fabulous funerary objects were found in 1922 – reigned ...

Egyptians: the masters of mummification Ancient Egyptians are perhaps the best known mummy-makers—though initially, it was their climate, not their skill, that preserved the dead. Arid desert ...

The health status of people living in ancient times has remained under wraps—quite literally so in the case of Egyptian mummies. But thanks in part to developments in medical imaging ...

Two artificial big toes – one found attached to the foot of an ancient Egyptian mummy – may have been the world’s earliest functional prosthetic body parts, says the scientist who tested replicas on ...

The "mummy's curse" first enjoyed worldwide acclaim after the 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt. When Howard Carter opened a small hole to peer ...