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

The notorious Aspergillus flavus - dubbed the "mummy's curse" could hold the secret in the cure for cancer.

Though the end credits tease of a sequel, Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires, was originally a joke, filmmaker Don ...

Meresamun is believed to have come from an elite Thebes family and was probably trained for her role by her mother.

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

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

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

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

Egyptian mummy's horrifying fate changes everything experts knew about disease The scientific name for the infection, Yersinia pestis, wiped out vast swathes of Europe but this new finding means ...

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

From mid-November onwards, the Hong Kong Palace Museum will host the ‘Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums ...