Peering into an underground cavern in central Egypt, archaeologists came face-to-face with dozens of dusty ancient mummies and knew they’d uncovered something significant. Photos show some of ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures ... and books. Ancient Egypt is best known for the pyramids of Giza, the giant Sphinx, and mummies.

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

The Eye of Horus is frequently found in ancient Egyptian burials, particularly on wedjat amulets.

Archaeologists discovered the tomb of an unknown pharaoh from a tumultuous, war-ridden era of ancient Egypt. Now they're ...

Egyptians: the masters of mummification Ancient Egyptians are perhaps the best known mummy-makers—though initially, it was their climate, not their skill, that preserved the dead. Arid desert ...

But their scents can persist, and in the case of ancient Egyptian mummies, conservators describe those smells as pleasant. The ancient Egyptians took good care of their dead because it was ...

Recently, 14 experts from nine countries and over a dozen scientific institutions, including the Warsaw Mummy Project (WMP), reexamined the remains. The team analyzed 1,300 CT images and ...