The grand opening of the GEM, which was set for July 3 – much delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises, and the COVID ...

Opening the mummy's cloth is the most direct way to obtain information about the remains within it. But these fabrics are very delicate and fragile, and damaging them would destroy the only known ...

CT scans and X-rays, performed without ever touching the mummy, have revealed to researchers that the mummy of “Bashiri” was a man about 167 centimetres tall.

The most eagerly anticipated museum on earth is finally opening – here’s everything we know Two decades in the making and 11 years late, the Grand Egyptian Museum has opened its doors.

By AHMED HATEM CAIRO (AP) — The Grand Egyptian Museum will open 12 halls with exhibits about ancient Egypt in its main galleries starting this week in a trial run ahead of the still-unannounced ...

100-year-old folklore and pop culture have perpetuated the myth that opening a mummy's tomb leads to certain death. Movie mummies are known for two things: fabulous riches and a nasty curse that ...

Archaeologists unearthed the "Screaming Woman" mummy, named after her gaping mouth, in Deir el-Bahari, near Luxor, Egypt, in 1935 while excavating the tomb of Senenmut, a prominent architect and ...

Ancient Egypt's gods: Osiris (the ... died with salt and wrapped it in linen cloth before conducting the "Opening of the Mouth" ceremony, in which a priest touched different parts of the mummy ...

A mummy, known as the “Untouchable,” was discovered nearly a century ago in the Valley of the Kings region of the ancient city of Luxor. Renowned Egyptologist Howard Carter made the discovery in 1919, ...