The bandage dress, that item of clothing invented in the mid-1980s that makes the wearer look as if she has been sucked into ...

Peruvian gas workers this week found a thousand-year-old mummy while installing pipes in Lima, their company said, confirming ...

The ancient tomb, found in Abydos, Egypt, is thought to belong to a pharaoh who ruled 3,600 years ago, during a time of ...

Researchers in Poland have made a unique discovery: the remains of the first embalmed pregnant ancient Egyptian mummy, known as the “Mysterious Lady.” Dating from the 1st century BCE, this mummy was ...

Egyptian mummies have always been a subject of great ... The corpse was carefully wrapped in multiple layers of linen bandages, often coated with resin to ensure they adhered properly.

For centuries, ancient Egyptian mummies have been the most reliable crowd-pleasers in museums across Britain. London's British Museum alone holds over 100 mummies - bodies wrapped in linen and ...

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 ...

But the first study to systematically sniff the wrapped human remains report ... working with conservators and curators at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, deployed a variety of techniques to explore ...

Emma Paolin Few visitors wandering through the mummy galleries at the Egyptian ... the gilded sarcophagi and elaborately wrapped bodies of ancient Egyptian elites on display in glass cases.

Ancient Egypt still hides a great amount of its secrets regarding ... With the complex and precise mummification method and the way the linen was wrapped around the mummy, archaeologists were unable ...

Mummies are practically synonymous with Ancient Egypt. The term conjures up images of an undead creature wrapped in bandages rising from its sarcophagus deep within a pyramid. But mummies aren’t ...

In 1935, a Metropolitan Museum of New York archeological expedition working near Luxor in Egypt came across a mysterious mummy ... embalmers would have wrapped the jaw to keep it from opening ...