New Greek and Roman archaeological discoveries including a funerary building, portraits, mummies, and statues were made in Fayoum, Egypt.

The amount of precision and finesse in the mummy's packaging suggests that this individual was a very important figure in ancient Egyptian society. But the identity of the body remains unknown ...

Credit: A. Ledo/ Warsaw Mummy Project A recent study has ended a four-year-long mystery over an ancient Egyptian mummy once believed to be a pregnant woman who died from cancer. The findings reveal ...

An Egyptian mummy used to live under the floorboards at University College Cork. Dorothy Cross first heard of it from her Aunt May. It was 1983, and the pair were sharing stories in May’s ...

First Royal Tomb Since King Tut Discovered Mohamed Abdel Badie—head of the Egyptian Antiquities Sector at the Supreme Council of Antiquities—noted that the pharaoh’s tomb is much larger than ...

WARSAW, POLAND—Live Science reports that an international team of researchers has finally resolved the mystery surrounding a controversial Egyptian ... ever pregnant mummy caused a stir ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of an Egyptian army where an Israelite king was killed. The discoveries at Megiddo, which inspired "Armageddon," reinforce biblical stories about King ...

Archaeologists have long assumed that ancient Egyptian pyramids were reserved for the richest members of society – but an analysis of burials at a site called Tombos suggests low-status workers ...

“Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija Strlič ... scientists identified nine mummified people from Cairo’s Egyptian Museum. Some of the remains dated back to the ...

Of course, it would not be a collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts without mummies. Those on view at the Grand Egyptian Museum include a 4,000 year old preserved crocodile, the gold-plated ...

Displaying Egyptian mummies and other human remains in museums and universities should be banned as it may offend the 'wishes of the ancestors', MPs have claimed. The all-party Parliamentary Group ...

Turkish authorities in the historic city of Niğde recently detained six people after finding an unusual possession in one of their homes: a medieval mummy allegedly destined for sale on the black ...