We all know the New Kingdom mummies from ancient Egypt were preserved with a certain sophistication and advanced skill that ...

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

Uncovering 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 ...

RICHMOND, IN — The five finalists for the name of Richmond's newest baseball team have been revealed. On July 7, Richmond ...

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

The methods of embalming, or treating the dead body, that the ancient Egyptians used is called mummification. Using special processes, the Egyptians removed all moisture from the body, leaving only a ...

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 ...

Researchers in Egypt used digital technology to ‘unwrap’ mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I for the first time in 3,000 years.

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

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 ...

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