A 12th-century translation error kicked off a 700-year trade in mummies, depopulating the tombs of Egypt to populate European ...

Ancient writers, modern scientists, and the mummies themselves all help us better understand the Egyptian mummification process and the culture in which it existed. Much of what we know about the ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Researchers in Poland have made quite the unique discovery, they have found the remains of the first embalmed pregnant ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

CT scans revealed unexpected findings inside these ancient Egyptian mummies. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When ...

Several mummies with gold tongues have been discovered during excavations at an ancient necropolis in Egypt. Researchers with an Egyptian archaeological mission found the unusual remains after ...

Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods. Nature Communications, 2017; 8: 15694 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms15694; ...

One of the newfound gold tongues. (Image credit: Image courtesy of Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities) During the latest dig, the archaeologists also found 29 amulets with the mummies.

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered eight limestone sarcophagi containing mummies at a site 25 miles south of Cairo. Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry said the mummies dating to the Late Period ...

Only a few Egyptian mummies have been found with an open mouth. A new study suggests an ancient Egyptian woman whose mummified remains were discovered in the 1930s may have died violently.