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 ...

Egyptian mummies have long been a subject of fascination for people from all walks of life, be it scientists, archaeologists, ...

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 ...

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

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

The “Golden boy,” mummy was found in 1916 at a cemetery in Nag el-Hassay in southern Egypt that was used between approximately 332 and 30 BCE. The mummy features many examples of ancient ...

Once known as “Pharaoh’s Daughter”, the 3000-year-old male mummy took a bizarre path to a cupboard in Glasgow.

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For nearly 140 years, except for a brief stay in the United States, the ancient mummy lay in a tiny museum in Niagara Falls, Ont. All visitors knew it was ...

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.