Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

When author and artist Noah Angell heard rumors that the British Museum in London was haunted, he set about documenting ghost ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

An Egyptian genome has finally been unraveled, thanks to a sample from an at least 4,500 year-old mummy dating back to the ...

Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) have extracted and sequenced the ...

The Manchester Museum is running a public consultation about the future of Asru, a woman who lived in Thebes, southern Egypt ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

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.

The 'rediscovery' of the ancient city of Imet, in Egypt's eastern Nile Delta, has been hailed a landmark historical find.

The mummy; chapters on Egyptian funereal archaeology by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 Publication date 1893 Topics Mummies, Funeral rites and ceremonies Publisher ...