The mummy was buried in a simple, circular grave at the top of the pyramid, which is located in the heart of a residential area in the Peruvian capital of Lima.

Mummies are among the most unique things found in Egypt's pyramids but are fragile. For centuries, learning about a mummy meant unwrapping it—a destructive process that often resulted in damaged ...

The Mummy Is About 500 Miles Off The Mark With Its Pyramids YouTuber Rachel Maksy sat down with real-life Egyptologist Dr. Colleen Darnell, and together they watched The Mummy in order to critique ...

On the 100-year anniversary of unearthing King Tut's tomb, archaeologists discover hundreds of tombs and mummies buried in Giza. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The mummy called “Hekashepes” was located at the bottom of a 49-foot shaft near the Step Pyramid at Saqqara, where the team was working to uncover a cemetery of fifth and sixth-dynasty tombs ...

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Everyone’s favorite late ‘90s adventure flick, The Mummy, follows Rick O’Connel (Brendan Fraser) and Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz) on an ad hoc Egyptian expedition. They are in search of ...

Archeologists uncovered what is likely the oldest mummy ever discovered in Egypt on Thursday. Archaeologists discovered the 4,300-year-old Hekashepes near the Step Pyramid wrapped in gold leaf.

The Sphinx at Giza in Cairo set against the Pyramid Pyramid of Khafre. Getty Images In the 1956 movie, "The Ten Commandments," enslaved people are seen dragging blocks across hot desert scenes to ...

Archeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest mummy ever found in Egypt. The 4,300-year-old mummy was a rich, important 35-year-old man called Djed Sepsh, archaeologist Zahi Hawass, Egypt ...

The thread was even picked up by Little Women author Louisa May Alcott in her nearly unknown volume Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy's Curse. "My research has not only confirmed that there is, of ...