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 shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the ...

An ancient Egyptian mummy has revealed a terrifying strain of bubonic plague that was present thousands of years before the ...

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

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

Archeologists unearthed the tomb of a mystery pharaoh seven metres below ground level as the identity of the mummy baffles ...

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 ...

Rather than one royal mummy, a cache of mummies was discovered there. Among the dead, scholars identified no fewer than 11 pharaohs of ancient Egypt’s splendid New Kingdom period, including Seti ...

The mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun will not be transferred to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Cairo and will remain in its ...

Decorated with flower garlands and a beguiling wooden face mask, the mummy was so fragile that archaeologists had never dared expose the remains, making it the only royal Egyptian mummy found in ...

Sound familiar? Well, it happens, even among ancient Egyptian mummies. New research being unveiled today at the Putnam Museum shows its iconic female mummy - known as Isis Neferit, a chantress in ...