People have long wanted to look inside mummies' casings at the 'real' people beneath. But a new show is ditching the scans and honouring the dead as it sees fit, writes Holly Williams.

Why are there so few mummies leftThe answer to this question is a lot more dark and disturbing than you’d expect. It’s estimated that more than 70 million people were mummified over the 3000 ...

Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. Timelapse video shows speed of ...

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To date, tens of millions of animal mummies have been unearthed in Egypt. But while there are millions of mummified cats, dogs, ibises and birds of prey, primate mummies are rare — and little ...

Archaeologists have unearthed several ancient tombs with dozens of mummies—including some with golden tongues. Researchers made the findings during excavations at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

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 ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered several ancient tombs containing mummies with golden tongues in their mouths. The mummies were found in the ancient cemetary of Qewaisna about 40 miles ...

Researchers sampling air from a sarcophagus at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo on October 22, 2023. The contents of the bag will then be used for sensory analysis. CECILIA BEMBIBRE Essentially "woody ...

People have long wanted to look inside mummies' casings at the 'real' people beneath. But a new show is ditching the scans and honouring the dead as it sees fit, writes Holly Williams.