It is currently housed at the Egypt Museum in Cairo. The complex arrangement of bandages over the mummy's face is said to resemble the architectural design of the Egyptian pyramids ...

Egyptologists are hopeful that ongoing investigations using non-invasive techniques may finally uncover the identity of the ...

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

“Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija Strlič, a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Ljubljana and a professor of heritage science at University College London.

a “key religious text associated with royal tombs of ancient Egypt,” the tourism ministry said. Thutmose II's mummy was discovered in 1881 in Al-Deir El-Bahari Cache. It is believed to have ...

The unearthing of the tomb of ancient Egyptian King Thutmose II is being described as one of the most important archaeological discoveries in recent years.

according to the relatively new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization. His mummy is now on display, among those of other ancient royals, at the museum. The tomb is in a poor state of ...

The earliest Egyptian mummies discovered by archaeologists date to around 3500 B.C., well before the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. Mummification was a sacred funeral rite for the ancient ...

Are these perfume descriptions? Not at all. These adjectives refer to a series of Egyptian mummies whose smells have been analyzed by an international team of researchers. The results were ...