The mummy features many examples of ancient Egyptian beliefs about life after death. He was armed with no fewer than 49 amulets of 21 types to promote the resurrection of his body, wore sandals as ...

Photos show the inside of a young teen's mummy from 2,300 years ago. The child, nicknamed the "golden boy," was mummified with 49 protective amulets. The rare discovery sheds light on how ...

When researchers scanned the mummy, they spotted 49 amulets with 21 different designs, including a golden tongue placed inside the mouth and a golden heart scarab located in the chest, which ...

The mummy was discovered in 1916 in Nag el-Hasay, southern Egypt, at a cemetery occupied between around 332 and 30 BCE. CT scans were utilised by Egyptian researchers to find the amulets. Frontiers in ...

"The technique enabled me to digitally remove the wrapping to visualize the amulets in between the layers, and to visualize the face of the mummy." Saleem claimed that Amenhotep I's mummy was the ...

Putting their mummy where their mouth is ... Archaeologists also found 29 golden amulets, some in the shape of scarabs, the beetles that are commonly depicted in Ancient Egyptian antiquities.

A mummy of a child that has lain undisturbed for 2,300 years was festooned in 'magic' amulets all over his body, new scans have revealed. Scientists used CT scans to 'unwrap' the mummy and found 49 ...

Image credit: courtesy World Heritage Exhibitions Golden amulets of the goddess Bastet. Image credits: courtesy World Heritage Exhibitions Archaeologists categorise animal mummies into four ... sphinx ...