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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

The scientific name for the infection, Yersinia pestis, wiped out vast swathes of Europe but this new finding means ...