No archaeologist dares to open a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy, fearing the loss of a one-of-a-kind burial method.

The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright ...

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year ...

After discovering a trove of mummified crocodiles in Egypt, researchers noticed something unexpected—these reptiles had an ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...

The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II is the first royal crypt discovered in recent years, and scientists have new powerful tools to analyze it.

The earliest Egyptian mummies discovered by archaeologists date ... What do you know about the history and practice of mummification in ancient Egypt? Unwrap your skills, because this quiz will ...

Displaying Egyptian mummies and other human remains in museums ... It cites the British Museum, Natural History Museum and several universities among the offenders, and claims they represent ...

The British Museum houses an incredible collection of artefacts from Ancient Egypt, from the famed Rosetta Stone to an impressive collection of mummies.

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the ... the 2,600-year-old trove includes a necklace depicting a golden trio of Egyptian deities Eli Wizevich Howard Carter used the luggage ...

Researchers who examined nine mummies found ... way to communicate history. "We know smells were essential to social, religious and personal practises [in ancient Egypt]," she told the BBC.

A mysterious mummy called “Bashiri” has captivated the minds of Egyptologists for more than a century, but no scholar has ...