An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

One museum visitor in Edinburgh was horrified to see stolen body parts belonging to his 19th century ancestors on display ...

A recent international study led by archaeologist Kamila Braulińska from the University of Warsaw challenged previous claims ...

The earliest Egyptian mummies ... into the next world. Ancient Egyptians believed the heart was the seat of the person's essence, so it was always left inside a mummy. But the process of ...

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 ...