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

U ncovering mummies is a sure way to prompt Ancient Egyptian curses that might be true, which explains why the Bashiri mummy has remained undisturbed for more than two millennia.This mysterious ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

The mummy of Amenhotep I was discovered in 1881 in the ancient city of Thebes (modern Luxor) along the Nile River in southern Egypt. Amenhotep I's original tomb has not been found.

The tomb’s burial chambers, dated to 2400 BC, contain 23 human mummies and more than 30 animal mummies. Ancient Egyptians believed that the soul remained inside the body after death, so ...

Baltimore marks the 27th stop on his current tour, where attendees will hear about several new discoveries, including a newly-found pyramid and a lost city.

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 ...

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

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient Egyptian mummies smell like? Whether you wanted to know or not, scientists ...