After discovering a trove of mummified crocodiles in Egypt, researchers noticed something unexpected—these reptiles had an ...

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 ...

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, originally believed ...

But the first study to systematically sniff the wrapped human remains report ... working with conservators and curators at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, deployed a variety of techniques to explore ...

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

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

Few visitors wandering through the mummy galleries at the Egyptian ... off the gilded sarcophagi and elaborately wrapped bodies of ancient Egyptian elites on display in glass cases.

During the mummification process, ancient Egyptians would surround ... intervene" in the conservation of the mummies, identifying how best to store and wrap the bodies, the research paper said.