The Saqqara Necropolis, the burial ground for the ancient capital city of Memphis located south of Cairo, recently announced ...

Soon, the elaborately decorated artifact will be transferred to the brand new Grand Egyptian Museum, joining more than 5,000 ...

Egypt is a place filled with mystery, history, and tourists. The people are there for a good reason, too. Who doesn’t want to take in the ancient pyramids in person? Built in a period before modern ...

Scientists have found that ancient Egyptian mummified bodies emit woody, spicy, and sweet aromas, offering fresh insights into the mummification process, practices and materials. David Doyle has more.

An 800-year-old mummy donated to a museum in Italy a century ago has revealed new clues about ancient face tattoos. But the mummy's origin remains shrouded in mystery.

Ancient Egyptians viewed all their dreams, whether sweet or scary, as full of messages for the dreamer. Bad dreams scared the ancient Egyptians, who feared that evil spirits or demons would visit ...

The mummy of the ‘air-dried chaplain’ in his coffin in the church crypt of St. Thomas am Blasenstein, Austria. Credit: Andreas Nerlich. Credit: Andreas Nerlich Researchers discovered a centuries-old ...

Reader discretion is advised. Researchers have uncovered the reason an "unusual" 18th-century mummy was preserved so well in Austria – and it's highly abnormal. A study about the mummy was ...

A stone head that spent decades gathering dust on a wall has proved to be an Egyptian statue from an ancient tomb. The statue fragment was one of hundreds of pieces, from a fossilised shark tooth ...