“Poor little fella,” says Gibson, an Egyptologist and teacher at the Royal Ontario Museum. She smiles parentally at the 2,000-year-old mummified infant resting in front of her. Report an error ...

GAYLE GIBSON (Royal Ontario Museum): What you had in Egypt ... by the priests stating they had moved his body to safety. Exactly how and when his mummy might have left the cache remained to ...

As the British Museum noted ... left the decaying bodies of executed criminals on public display as a warning and a show of power. In English, use of the word “mummy” to mean a preserved ...

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? Royal occupationA sunken ...

Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum ... stood the mummy upright and that the cartonnage was softened with humidity to make it flexible so they could closely mold it around the body.