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

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 ...

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

The oldest confirmed case of the illness in an ancient Egyptian mummy has shown the bubonic plague was around thousands of ...

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 ...

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

Most of the KV35 mummies were removed from the tomb and taken to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but Amenhotep II’s body remained in situ. In 1901 thieves broke into the tomb.

In Lima, Peru, gas company workers unearthed a remarkably preserved 1,000-year-old mummy of a boy during pipeline ...

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

In 1868 the Museum of Zagreb in Croatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, acquired an Egyptian mummy of a woman. Her previous owner had removed her wrappings but held on to them.