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.

Last night, Egypt has presented a distinguished historical event through the procession of Pharaonic royal mummies, which travelled from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square in the Egyptian ...

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 mummified woman was believed to have died during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt - and the cause of death ...

A History of the World in 100 Objects — Making Us Human (2,000,000 - 9000 BC), Mummy of Hornedjitef 1 / 5 Neil MacGregor retells humanity's history through the objects it has made BBC Radio 4 ...

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