We all know the New Kingdom mummies from ancient Egypt were preserved with a certain sophistication and advanced skill that ...

Researchers in Poland have made quite the unique discovery, they have found the remains of the first embalmed pregnant ...

There are older ancient Egyptian mummies — such as several mummies that date back more than 5,000 years at the site of Gebelein, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of ancient Thebes (modern ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Ancient Egypt: Misidentified Hawk Mummy Is Actually a Human Baby. Published Jun 04, 2018 at 11:04 AM EDT. By . ... A hawk, to be precise, preserved and painted some 2,100 years ago in ancient Egypt.

White explorers, collectors, and archaeologists brought mummies by the hundreds back from Egypt in the 1800s and early 1900s, though many of them were dug up by Egyptian tomb raiders or bought ...

While ancient Egyptian mummy portraits have long been objects of curiosity, only a minimal amount of scholarship exists about them. Many questions have lingered since they were uncovered by ...

Mummies and myths go together, with a touch of ghoulish fascination with ancient tombs for added interest, but modern science is shedding a little light on some of our more musty ideas about ...

The Egyptian mummies that stalk the pages and screens of horror, science fiction and fantasy are in a way justified for their behavior. Rarely does a mummy animate without outside provocation, ...

Egyptian Mummies is the latest word on these subjects. It’s a fascinating mix of art, science, and the lifestyles of six Egyptians whose mummies date from 900 b.c. to a.d. 180.

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

The mummy returns. No, seriously. The long-lost remains of an Egyptian mummy, stolen from a tomb and smuggled to the United States, is to be returned home after more than 90 years.