In ancient Egyptian funerary rituals, canopic jars were used to hold human organs that were removed during the mummification ...

The Manchester Museum in northern England is asking visitors whether it should withdraw an ancient Egyptian mummy from its ...

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 ...

Discover interesting facts about ancient Egypt's pyramids, mummies and pharaohs. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu ... Ancient Egyptians sometimes mummified their pets, including pet cats ...

The mummy of a Romano-Egyptian child from the Egyptian Ptolemaic period (304 B.C. to 30 B.C.) that is now housed at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C. (Image ...

A meat mummy is a section of animal prepared as if for eating, then bandaged and placed in a sarcophagus by ancient Egyptians. Egyptian royalty, even after death, got hungry. And royalty deserved ...

Egyptian researchers have learned new insights into the mummification process. For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians mummified their dead in the search for eternal life.

Let’s start with this secret: Mummies weren’t spooky to the ancient Egyptians. “Nowadays, when we look at anything dead, we consider it to be creepy,” says Egyptologist and National ...

The ancient Egyptians ... But one of the most well-known burial practices in living history is mummification. Ancient Egyptians ... marry your cousin—it’s not that bad for your future kids.

Most of what we know about ancient Egyptian mummification techniques comes from a few ancient texts. In addition to a text called The Ritual of Embalming, Greek historian Herodotus, in his ...

Most people know what an ancient Egyptian mummy looks like, but they probably can’t tell you about how they smell. You don’t have to wait to get up-close-and-personal to one in a museum to ...

A look at 21 ancient Egyptian mummified children reveals that one-third of them had a blood disorder known as anemia.