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

1 Department of Radiology, Kasr Al Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; 2 The Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt; Ancient Egyptian mummies represent an opportunity to learn more about ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely 20 inches from the ...

A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania claim that the deadly fungus can be a huge breakthrough in the fight against cancer. Aspergillus flavus, which has been linked to many deaths ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the ...

How ancient builders raised the mighty pyramids still captures the curiosity of historians and scientists. Despite decades of digging, high-tech scanning, and countless theories, the puzzle ...

An ancient wooden Egyptian falcon. Inset: A powder developed by WSU for research into Egyptian blue. Credit: Composite featuring photos by Matt Unger and Joshua Franzos, Carnegie Museum of Natural ...

A Co Antrim primary school studying ancient Egyptian history “brought the topic to life” after performing an Egyptian-themed flash mob in Belfast.

The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, long the historic heart of Egyptology, has lost in 2021 other star exhibits: 22 royal mummies including Ramses II and Queen Hatshepsut that were relocated in a ...

After nearly a century in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, King Tutankhamun's iconic gold mask and remaining treasures are set to move to the new Grand Egyptian Museum near the Giza Pyramids. Visitors ...

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 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.