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CAIRO, Egypt -- The long-overlooked mummy of a woman who likely suffered from diabetes and liver cancer has been identified as that of Queen Hatshepsut, ancient Egypt's most powerful female ...
For 3,000 years, a mummy of the pharaoh Amenhotep I hid its secrets. Researchers in Egypt have used a CT scan to find out new details about just what the mummy was hiding. About 3,500 years ago ...
For the first time, scientists have used three-dimensional technology to "digitally unwrap" the mummy of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh that had not been opened in 3,000 years. Scientists said the ...
But according to mummy expert Dr Eduard Egarter Vigl, the pharaoh was built normally ... gave birth to two stillborn girls.
Egyptologists announced that they have uncovered multiple 4,300 year old tombs and a gold laced mummy in the Saqqara ... According to Hawass, Meri was the pharaoh’s appointed “secret keeper.” ...
British archaeologist Piers Litherland, who spearheaded the joint Egyptian-British team, believes that there is a second tomb, which could contain the mummy of Thutmose II.
Archaeologists were delighted by the discovery of an intact pharaoh's mummy, but they couldn't help but wonder: Who were the other 12 mummies resting in the same tomb?