The Manchester Museum in northern England is asking visitors whether it should withdraw an ancient Egyptian mummy from its ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the ...

The notorious Aspergillus flavus - dubbed the "mummy's curse" could hold the secret in the cure for cancer.

Researchers wanted to know if today’s mummies still carry traces of the original embalming materials. And if so, could those scents help museums better preserve and explain thes ...

When people died after entering the ancient pyramids for the first time it was blamed on a Pharaoh's Curse or Mummy's Revenge ...

The museum poses the question as part of a process of addressing the colonial origins of some of its collections ...

The pharaoh Ramesses II is one of the best known warrior rulers of ancient Egypt, famous for his military victories and great ...

We are speaking about everything, we are open to everything, in order to do collaboration,’ custodian of Egyptian relics says ...

The mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun will not be transferred to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Cairo and will remain in its original tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor.The decision to keep the m ...

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 scientific name for the infection, Yersinia pestis, wiped out vast swathes of Europe but this new finding means ...