This mysterious Egyptian mummy was discovered in 1919 in the Valley of the Kings, but unlike other ancient remains, no researcher has ever dared to unwrap its uniquely preserved bindings.

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

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

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the Black Death ...

Manchester Museum is asking visitors whether the mummified remains of an Egyptian woman should continue to be displayed. The body of Asru, a high-status Egyptian woman believed to have lived around ...

Scientists have discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague — marking the first case of the disease outside of the Eurasian continent.

The oldest confirmed case of the illness in an ancient Egyptian mummy has shown the bubonic plague was around thousands of ...

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 ...

3D scans reveal secrets of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy’s coffin. Experts long wondered how Lady Chenet-aa was placed in her cartonnage. By Andrew Paul. Published Oct 28, 2024 4:35 PM EDT.