Inside, they found what Hawass said was the oldest non-royal mummy ever discovered in Egypt. It was also the oldest mummy wrapped in gold leaf ever found in the country, he added.

Archeologists uncovered what is likely the oldest mummy ever discovered in Egypt on Thursday. Archaeologists discovered the 4,300-year-old Hekashepes near the Step Pyramid wrapped in gold leaf ...

LUXOR, Egypt -- The linen wrapped mummy of King Tut was put on public display for the first time yesterday -- 85 years after the 3,000-year-old boy pharaoh's golden enshrined tomb and mummy were ...

Egypt's mummy researchers waiting on DNA. By ABC News. December 22, 2007, 1:04 PM. ... So far, results indicate the linen-wrapped mummy is most likely, but not conclusively, ...

The ruler's mummy was found fully wrapped in 1881, and according to researchers, is one of the few royal mummies to not be physically unwrapped in modern times.

An unusual mud-wrapped mummy is leading archaeologists to rethink how nonroyal Egyptians preserved their dead. CT scans of an Egyptian mummy from around 1200 B.C. reveal that the body is sheathed ...

Perfectly wrapped Egyptian mummy's layers 'peeled off' for first time with scanning technology. Egyptologists knew from decoded hieroglyphics that the mummy had been unwrapped once in the 11th ...

The perfectly wrapped mummified body of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep I has been seen for the first time in centuries after being digitally “unwrapped” with high-tech scanners.

A newly-discovered mummy wrapped in linen with sarcophagus fragments found in burial chambers dating to the Ptolemaic era (305-30 BC) at the necropolis of Tuna el-Gebel in Egypt, Feb. 2, 2019.

This is the only known mud-wrapped ancient Egyptian mummy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The discovery of a rare "mud ...

An Australian teacher who stuffed his luggage with 2,000-year old animal mummies and religious figurines wrapped as gifts was arrested Wednesday, an Egyptian airport security official said.

The perfectly wrapped mummified body of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep I has been seen for the first time in centuries after being digitally “unwrapped” with high-tech scanners. Researchers ...