Gas workers digging beneath a major capital city stumbled upon a 1,000-year-old mummy, almost on the opposite side of the ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

However, the ancient Egyptian mummy, housed at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, has now shown the plague was also prevalent in North Africa during the early Bronze Age, reports the Mirror US.

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