An archaeological site that used to be a garbage dump has revealed the extraordinarily preserved mummy of an elite woman from ...

Scientists have studied an enigmatic mummy from the crypt of an Austrian church and revealed an unusual embalming method and ...

The Pyramids of Giza, which draw millions of tourists each year, are a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the original ...

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 ...

The Egyptian government has announced that it will inject 500 million Egyptian pounds - equivalent to $47 million - into ...

Mummification was practiced throughout most of early Egyptian history. The earliest mummies from prehistoric times probably were accidental. By chance, dry sand and air (since Egypt has almost no ...

The so-called "screaming woman" was buried around 3,500 years ago during the reign of Queen Hatshepsut in Luxor, Egypt, and has long puzzled scientists who have now made a horror discovery ...

Therefore, when we took off the lid of this sarcophagus and found inside another five-ton anthropoid sarcophagus, beautifully inscribed, and underneath that a mummy, it was a moment that no one ...

Inside each of these pyramids is a mummy. Mummification was the way in which they prepared the body for burial. This involved removing all of the moisture from the body, including most of the ...

The pyramids of Egypt fascinated travellers and conquerors in ancient times and continue to inspire wonder in the tourists, mathematicians, and archeologists who visit, explore, measure, and describe ...