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

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

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

A new study debunks the long-held mystery that an ancient Egyptian mummy, known as the "Mysterious Lady," was pregnant or had ...

The wrapping of the fabrics has created an intricate pattern on the mummy's face which resembles the architectural design of Egypt's famous ... figure in ancient Egyptian society.

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

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that mimicked these diagnoses, researchers have concluded, settling a four-year ...

A new study found that one crocodile's mummification began "very rapidly after the death," which was caused by blunt force ...

A new book by the artist Dorothy Cross tells the remarkable story of Cecil, UCC’s Egyptian mummy, and his return home ...

Seven institutions in Egypt will loan more than 200 works to the Hong Kong Palace Museum later this year for a blockbuster ...

“Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija Strlič, a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Ljubljana and a professor of heritage science at University College London.

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