History is full of unsolved ancient Egyptian mysteries, including why one of their gods looks like a snake with a pair of legs. Imagine attending the divine design meeting where this unusual ...

Scientists are gaining new insight into the ancient Egyptian practice of mummifying animals, using high-resolution 3-D scans to peer inside mummies of a cat, a bird and a snake to learn about ...

The researchers found evidence that the snake, a juvenile Egyptian Cobra, had been denied water while alive, based on its calcified kidneys, and apparently was killed by spinal fracture after ...