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For the 60th Anniversary of its mummy’s arrival, the museum has had a new exhibit called Discoveries on the Nile: Exploring ...

A toxic fungus determined to be behind the "curse" of Tutankhamun’s tomb can help fight cancer, scientists believe. The ...

Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in ...

When the beard fell off the boy pharaoh's funerary mask in August 2014 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, employees tried to reattach it with glue. When the botched restoration was noticed it made ...

A major breakthrough in Maya archaeology has emerged from Caracol, Belize, where the University of Houston team uncovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak—Caracol’s first known ruler. Buried with elaborate ...

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

Archaeologists in Portugal just identified the world's oldest mummies — thanks to a few undeveloped rolls of 60-year-old film ...

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