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

Learn more about the mysterious Bashiri Mummy and how it remained untouched for all these years.

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

A new study debunks the long-held mystery that an ancient Egyptian mummy, known as the "Mysterious Lady," was pregnant or had ...

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

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...

Live Science reports that an international team of researchers has finally resolved the mystery surrounding a controversial ...

The first "artificial" Egyptian mummies were made around 3000 B.C. These ... The last step was to coat the mummy in warm resin and wrap it from head to foot in layer after layer of linen strips.

Few visitors wandering through the mummy galleries at the Egyptian ... off the gilded sarcophagi and elaborately wrapped bodies of ancient Egyptian elites on display in glass cases.

The earliest Egyptian mummies discovered by archaeologists date to around 3500 B.C., well before the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. Mummification was a sacred funeral rite for the ancient ...