An archaeological site that used to be a garbage dump has revealed the extraordinarily preserved mummy of an elite woman from ...

Scientists have studied an enigmatic mummy from the crypt of an Austrian church and revealed an unusual embalming method and ...

Uncovering mummies is a sure way to prompt Ancient Egyptian curses that might be true, which explains why the Bashiri mummy has remained undisturbed for more than two millennia. This mysterious ...

Mummification was practiced throughout most of early Egyptian history. The earliest mummies from prehistoric times probably were accidental. By chance, dry sand and air (since Egypt has almost no ...

The thread was even picked up by Little Women author Louisa May Alcott in her nearly unknown volume Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy's Curse. "My research has not only confirmed that there is ...

Therefore, when we took off the lid of this sarcophagus and found inside another five-ton anthropoid sarcophagus, beautifully inscribed, and underneath that a mummy, it was a moment that no one ...

The site where the mummy was found this past December had ... China and Egypt. It even boasts a pyramid to rival the towering Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara. It only became a dump in the ...

The pyramids of Egypt fascinated travellers and conquerors in ancient times and continue to inspire wonder in the tourists, mathematicians, and archeologists who visit, explore, measure, and describe ...