An unusual mud-wrapped mummy is leading archaeologists to rethink how nonroyal Egyptians preserved their dead. CT scans of an Egyptian mummy from around 1200 B.C. reveal that the body is sheathed ...

It was also the oldest mummy wrapped in gold leaf ever found in the country, he added. While the ancient Egyptian at the bottom of the deep shaft was no pharaoh, the elaborate sendoff to the ...

While visiting the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, look for the Bashiri mummy in the main mummification hall. The distinctive pyramid-patterned face wrap makes it instantly recognizable among the ...

Sahar Saleem, radiologist of the Egyptian Mummy Project and first ... by hieroglyphic inscriptions on the coffin. The mummy was wrapped in linen and "covered from head to feet" in red, yellow ...

Archeologists uncovered what is likely the oldest mummy ever discovered in Egypt ... the first capital of ancient Egypt. Several other "important archaeological discoveries" were made, Hawass ...

wrap the torso of a mummy for shipping to their school at the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Conn. Egyptian mummy Pa-Ib (believed to be about 4,000 years old), a prized exhibit of the flamboyant ...

After this period, it was carefully wrapped in linen bandages and finally laid to rest inside a coffin. By the time Herodotus wrote this, Egyptians ... The pre-dynastic mummies of the fourth ...

Before you go, “Aren’t all mummies wrapped in bandages ... a bandaged wound on the mummy of a child who once lived in Ancient Egypt. Business Insider reports how researchers from Germany ...

The extraordinary care with which that Bashiri mummy was wrapped suggests this person was also of great importance in ancient Egyptian society. But the identity of the corpse remains unknown ...

A previous study in 2014 found complex embalming agents in linen fragments that were wrapped around bodies ... prehistoric Egyptian mummy,” said archaeological chemist Dr. Stephen Buckley ...