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

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures ... and books. Ancient Egypt is best known for the pyramids of Giza, the giant Sphinx, and mummies.

Egyptian mummies have always been a subject of great interest, not only from researchers and scientists, but the general population as well. In ancient Egypt, mummification was a long and complex ...

A massive tomb more than 3,600 years old has been unearthed within a royal necropolis in Egypt. The wealthy king that the ...

Archaeologists discovered the tomb of an unknown pharaoh from a tumultuous, war-ridden era of ancient Egypt. Now they're ...

In 2019, while excavating the necropolis of Qubbet el Hawa, across the Nile from Aswan in southern Egypt, Belgian and Spanish archaeologists unearthed a trove of mummified crocodiles: five almost ...

“Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija ... This makes a lot of sense, Strlič says, given that most ancient Egyptian mummified remains are housed in sarcophagi, which ...

The "Mysterious Lady" mummy viewed in a mixed-reality system reveals different aspects of the inside of her body. | Credit: Ł. Kownacki An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and ...

sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually smell pretty good. “In films and ...

All-party parliamentary group calls for changes in law as remains were acquired under ‘colonial regimes of exploitation’ ...