Given that fleas were the primary vectors of the plague, experts began to speculate that the disease might have been present in ancient Egypt.

It is a startling image from ancient Egypt - a mummy discovered during a 1935 archaeological expedition at Deir el-Bahari near Luxor of a woman with her mouth wide open in what looks like an ...

Read previous columns here. According to a recent CNN report, a number of British museums are seeking to avoid the use of the word “mummy” in descriptions of human remains from ancient Egypt.

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed 4,600-year-old ‘well’ tomb and brick tombs, other burials and an ancient mummy in a Greco-Roman catacomb. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have found the tomb of King Thutmose II — the first discovery of an ancient royal tomb since King Tutankhamun's in 1922.

Formally known as "CIT8", the Screaming Woman mummy was unearthed at Deir el-Bahari, a tomb complex in the Thebian necropolis, during the Metropolitan Museum of New York's 1935 expedition to Egypt.

Here’s how it works. A 3,500-year-old mummy dubbed the 'Screaming Woman' was found in an Egyptian tomb. A virtual autopsy of the mummy showed that her organs were still intact and well preserved.

The mummy of an ancient Egyptian woman with her mouth wide open in what looks like an anguished shriek may have died "screaming from agony," researchers say. The unnamed woman mummy, discovered in ...

Researchers are learning more about ancient graffiti -- and their intriguing comparisons to modern graffiti -- as they produce a state-of-the-art 3D recording of the Temple of Isis in Philae, Egypt.