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

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 ...

Journey to Eternal Life: Ancient Egyptian Artifacts, Mummies, and Pyramids Egyptian Mummies The methods of embalming, or treating the dead body, that the ancient Egyptians used is called mummification ...

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

There are many things we’ve learned from studying the ancient Egyptians. One especially fascinating discovery was evidence of ...

Though the end credits tease of a sequel, Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires, was originally a joke, filmmaker Don ...

An Egyptian genome has finally been unraveled, thanks to a sample from an at least 4,500 year-old mummy dating back to the ...

Researchers wanted to know if today’s mummies still carry traces of the original embalming materials. And if so, could those scents help museums better preserve and explain thes ...

So, she isn't the woman everyone thought she was - and no one will ever know her true identity. Sound familiar? Well, it happens, even among ancient Egyptian mummies. New research being unveiled ...