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

The scientific name for the infection, Yersinia pestis, wiped out vast swathes of Europe but this new finding means ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness in an ancient Egyptian mummy has shown the bubonic plague was around thousands of ...

Uncovering mummies is a sure way to prompt Ancient Egyptian curses that might be true, which explains why the Bashiri mummy has remained undisturbed for more than two millennia. This mysterious ...

The fact that Ramesses II lived to around age 90 was, in itself, quite a feat in ancient Egypt. At the time "most people died ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fact Check found that the video shows an Egyptian Mummy in the Luxor Museu. It is not related to the recent tragedy in ...

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.