The “elegant” face of an ancient Egyptian priestess whose singing was said to be able to calm the gods can be seen for the ...

A CT scan study of the mummy of Pharaoh Seqenenre-Taa-II, an Egyptian ruler whose death eventually helped reunite the kingdom, revealed new details about how the king died. A recent paper suggests ...

The 'elegant' face of an ancient Egyptian priestess whose singing was said to be able to calm the gods can be seen for the ...

Researchers wanted to know if today’s mummies still carry traces of the original embalming materials. And if so, could those scents help museums better preserve and explain thes ...

A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking ...

When people think about Egyptian discoveries, they often conjure images of pharaohs and high-ranking officials, their tombs ...

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A mysterious creature with human-like hands found mummified in a historic building is being probed by scientists - and nobody's quite sure what it is.

Egyptian mummy's 'horrifying fate' changes everything experts know about plague The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years ...

Egyptian mummy's horrifying fate changes everything experts knew about disease The scientific name for the infection, Yersinia pestis, wiped out vast swathes of Europe but this new finding means ...

A man has died following a house fire in Roscommon. Gardaí and emergency services were dispatched to the scene of the blaze at The Oaks housing estate in Frenchpark, located around 30km from ...