Researchers wanted to know if today’s mummies still carry traces of the original embalming materials. And if so, could those scents help museums better preserve and explain thes ...

The Manchester Museum in northern England is asking visitors whether it should withdraw an ancient Egyptian mummy from its ...

The museum poses the question as part of a process of addressing the colonial origins of some of its collections ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), which houses more than 100,000 ancient treasures, is now slated to open at the end of 2025. Here's how to get a sneak peek and what's on display.

After nearly a century in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, King Tutankhamun's iconic gold mask and remaining treasures are set ...

The tomb is believed to have belonged to King Thutmose II, who ruled Egypt in the early 15th century BC. It is the first ...

The mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun will not be transferred to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Cairo and will remain in its original tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor.The decision to keep the m ...

For centuries, ancient Egyptian mummies have been the most reliable crowd-pleasers in museums across Britain.. London's British Museum alone holds over 100 mummies - bodies wrapped in linen and ...

A mummy of an Egyptian woman dating back to 700 A.D. has been scanned and stripped to reveal a tattoo on her thigh that displays the name of the biblical archangel Michael. Read more ...

Nature - British Museum A Guide to the First and Second Egyptian Rooms Mummies, Mummy-Cases, and other Objects connected with the Funeral Rites of the Ancient Egyptians Skip to main content Thank ...