Social-media watchdogs are slamming “white people” for unearthing a 2,500-year-old mummy from its tomb in the sprawling Saqqara necropolis of Egypt. Archaeologists discovered 59 coffins… ...

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 ...

Archaeology & History Egypt Just Held an Astonishing, Real-Life Mummy Parade Though the Streets of Cairo to Celebrate the Opening of a New Museum—See Photos Here ...

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 ...

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.

Lady Chenet-aa lived roughly 3,000 years ago amid the 22nd Dynasty during Egypt’s Third Intermediate Period.Soon after her death, one of the ways funerary experts prepared her for the afterlife ...

X-ray scans have finally answered the mystery of how a famous Egyptian mummy was placed inside a coffin with no opening.. Scientists were able to see into Lady Chenet-aa's sarcophagus for the ...

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, ...

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