For thousands of years, Abydos has been the city of the dead. It’s one of Egypt’s most sacred and ancient burial sites, ...

“Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija Strlič, a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Ljubljana and a professor of heritage science at University College London.

You know what they say about ancient Egyptian ... Thutmose II’s true mummy once they finish excavating the second tomb. Thutmose II is best known for being Queen Hatshepsut’s husband.

No archaeologist dares to open a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy, fearing the loss of a one-of-a-kind burial method.

The tomb of King Thutmose II has been found, but what does this achievement mean? Is it an archaeological breakthrough of ...

The search for the pharaoh’s second tomb, after the discovery of the first, and the possibility that the Egyptologist’s ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that mimicked these diagnoses, researchers have concluded, settling a four-year ...

In 2019, while excavating the necropolis of Qubbet el Hawa, across the Nile from Aswan in southern Egypt, Belgian and Spanish archaeologists unearthed a trove of mummified crocodiles: five almost ...

Archaeologists in Egypt ... by ancient tomb robbers and not enough survives to read the king's name." The grave robbers sacked the tomb, and didn't leave any remains of the king's mummy or ...

The extraordinary care with which that Bashiri mummy was wrapped suggests this person was also of great importance in ancient Egyptian society. But the identity of the corpse remains unknown ...

The exhibition features a model ship symbolising the ancient Egyptian queen Hatshepsut’s expedition ... used was an ointment applied to the mummy’s flesh and organs to deify them.