His Egyptian keepsakes were, in fact, mummies. But Cox—a lawyer, journalist and author who served 16 terms as a member of Congress for Ohio and, later, New York—was no pillager of pyramids.

The discovery was made near the remains of a mummified adult lion, which was found underneath the Saqqara necropolis in 2004.

The so-called "screaming woman" was buried around 3,500 years ago during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt, and ...

A team of workers moved the giant bricks that make up the pyramids ... touched different parts of the mummy with a special instrument. The ancient Egyptians believed this allowed the person ...

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 ...

The "screaming woman" was mummified during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt - and her terrifying expression has captivated archaeologists for decades ...

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

The mystery of the 3,500 year old Egyptian mummy, whose face has been stuck in a 'scream' for ... could be due to a painful ...

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

When these texts were translated into Latin, European scholars mistakenly conflated mūmiyā with Egyptian mummies, assuming that the embalmed dead were imbued with similar restorative properties.