This mummy provides a unique window into the funerary practices during the Ptolemaic era of ancient Egypt. It is currently ...

Before his discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, it's rumored that Howard Cater, the renowned Egyptologist, discovered another mummy in 1919. Known as either the Bashiri Mummy, the Mummy of ...

A new study debunks the long-held mystery that an ancient Egyptian mummy, known as the "Mysterious Lady," was pregnant or had ...

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

Live Science reports that an international team of researchers has finally resolved the mystery surrounding a controversial ...

Credit: KriveArt/Getty Images The ancient Egyptians were not ... people and animals throughout the centuries. The earliest Egyptian mummies discovered by archaeologists date to around 3500 B.C ...

Lawmakers and campaigners in the United Kingdom are pushing for an end to the display of human remains in museums and the ...

Animals in ancient Egypt were mummified for use as votive ... Linen that once wrapped the mummies had long been consumed by insects. Examining the remains, team members were surprised they did ...

Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/AFP via Getty Images) The mummy of a 30-year-old man found in 1881 in Deir el-Bahari had previously been identified as Thutmose II. But Piers now thinks that ...

The British Museum houses an incredible collection of artefacts from Ancient Egypt, from the famed Rosetta Stone to an impressive collection of mummies.

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.