The Manchester Museum in northern England is asking visitors whether it should withdraw an ancient Egyptian mummy from its ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the ...

HONG KONG, June 26 (Xinhua) -- The Hong Kong Palace Museum signed a cooperation agreement with the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt on Thursday in Hong Kong, under which the two parties will co ...

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 ...

The 'Bashiri' mummy has captivated the minds of Egyptologists for more than a century, but no expert has ever dared to touch it. Scientists are working to unravel the mystery of who it is.

The mysterious mummy from 2,300 years ago Josse Leemage/ Egypt Musuem The only extant indication of this individual's identity is an inscription hastily written inside his tomb, which may be the ...

Technology Puts a Face on Egyptian Mummies. By Louis Jacobson. September 11, 2000 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. EAST LANSING, Mich.

PROF. ELLIOT SMITH and Mr. Warren Dawson have written a very interesting and useful book on mummies, which appears in a most attractive guise (except for some of the illustrations). Its outward ...

The tomb is believed to have belonged to King Thutmose II, who ruled Egypt in the early 15th century BC. It is the first ...

The earliest Egyptian mummies, dating back to roughly 5000 B.C.E.,formed when the remains of deceased individuals were buried in hot, dry sand and mummified naturally.