Victorian fascination with ancient Egypt went far beyond museums and archaeology. For centuries, powdered mummy remains had been sold as medicine, while human and animal mummies were even used to make ...

An ancient Egyptian mummy discovered in Thebes in 1935 has left scientists trying to explain one unusual detail for decades: her face appears frozen in a scream. The woman was buried about 3,000 years ...

Credit: Proyecto dos cero nueve, Universidad de La Laguna / Jared Carballo-Pérez The shift from placing mummies individually ...

100-year-old folklore and pop culture have perpetuated the myth that opening a mummy's tomb leads to certain death.

Asru's body was donated to the Manchester Natural History Society in 1825 before it was carefully unwrapped and displayed at the Oxford Road museum's Egypt and Sudan gallery ...

The same machines used to diagnose a broken rib are helping researchers peer inside the dusty remains of a 2000-year-old Egyptian mummy. That’s essentially what’s happening as researchers turn ...

The mummified body of an ancient Egyptian woman has been removed from display after 200 years out of “respect for her wishes”.

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer's Iliad. It wasn't placed beside the body, but inside the mummy's abdomen. But the ...

Mummies have captivated mankind since the dawn of time. The source of many myths and legends, these carefully preserved bodies hold priceless knowledge about ancient Egypt and its pharaohs.The ...

Learn how advancements in CT scanner technology is helping to unwrap the lives of ancient Egyptian mummies without even touching them. It’s not every day that you get to run a mummy-filled sarcophagus ...

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The bodies were arranged into crouched positions, then propped over or placed near a fire to slowly dehydrate. Australian National University New research suggests the world’s oldest mummies aren’t ...