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

Before his discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, it's rumored that Howard Cater, the renowned Egyptologist, ...

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

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

One museum visitor in Edinburgh was horrified to see stolen body parts belonging to his 19th century ancestors on display ...

Displaying Egyptian mummies and other human remains in museums ... It cites the British Museum, Natural History Museum and several universities among the offenders, and claims they represent ...

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

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

“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.

Lawmakers and campaigners in the United Kingdom are pushing for an end to the display of human remains in museums and the ...

The amount of precision and finesse in the mummy's packaging suggests that this individual was a very important figure in ...

The mummy offers a unique view of burial rites during the Ptolemaic period and is currently kept in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. The cloth roles and drawings on the mummy's face resemble the ...