As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

Mummies were used for shocking purposes throughout history that would sound quite bizarre today. The ways these ancient mummies were preserved in Egypt left a rich legacy of mummified remains ...

The earliest Egyptian mummies, dating back to roughly 5000 B.C.E.,formed when the remains of deceased individuals were buried in hot, dry sand and mummified naturally.

13 Mummies With Gold Tongue And Fake Nails Discovered In Ancient Egyptian Tomb The team also found 29 golden amulets, some in the shape of scarabs, the beetles that are commonly depicted in ...

Archaeologists excavated an ancient tomb in Al Bahnasa and uncovered mummies with golden tongues, amulets and wall paintings, photos show. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

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 ...

See the cast of The Mummy — including Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz — then and now, as the film celebrates its 25th anniversary.

Amulets are accessories that grant you perks in Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Here’s how to get every amulet we’ve found so far.

73 Pre-Incan Mummies, Some with ‘False Heads,’ Unearthed in Peru Burials holding mummies with false heads have been discovered from the Wari Empire in Peru ...

These mummies were discovered at the Bubasteion temple in Saqqara – the sprawling necropolis of ancient Memphis – stashed in tombs hewn from rock. The tombs were originally intended for humans. X-rays ...

The team located stone and wood coffins containing mummies, more than 25,000 ushabti statues, an untold number of utensils, thousands of stone and wooden amulets, and canopic jars.

The mummies have been part of Mexican culture since the 1860s. When the families of the deceased couldn’t continue paying burial fees, the bodies were set to be disinterred.