The treasures will go on display at the Grand Egyptian Museum near Cairo Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's Los Angeles Bureau as a writer ...

Turns out, this mummy that scientists initially thought to be pregnant and cancerous was neither of those things.

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WARSAW, POLAND—Live Science reports that an international team of researchers has finally resolved the mystery surrounding a controversial Egyptian mummified person. The body of the individual ...

Mummies—named after the bitumen tar, mum, used to coat the linen winding strips around them—have long held an almost magical fascination. The "civilized" world was titillated by Egypt's ...

Centuries after the first golden coffins were taken to Europe, ancient Egyptian mummies still vividly capture people’s imaginations. Perhaps we’re awed by the grandeur of their rituals and tradition.

This decorative Inner Mummy Coffin is more than 2,800 years old and is one of two in the care of Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. The coffin originally held the body of Iyhat - a middle ...

This wooden painted coffin is for a male priest of the god Amun, the god of universal power, who was the main god at Thebes,with a temple at the Karnak complex(modern ...

Archaeologists in Saqqara make a dazzling discovery: a late period Egyptian coffin with a gilded mask. Now, to bring it to the surface, they use a pulley known as a "tambora," a technology that ...