At top is the infrared image of the male mummy known as Gebelein Man. On the lower left is a detail of the tattoos observed on his right arm under infrared light. On the lower right are the mummy and ...

When Egyptian artisans painted figures on a coffin for the well-born chantress Tamut, they included an image of her as a lithe young woman in a transparent gown. In truth, Tamut was in her late 30s or ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Scientists are gaining new insight into the ancient Egyptian practice of mummifying animals, using high-resolution 3D scans to peer inside mummies of a cat, a bird and a ...

We love our dogs and cats, but the ancient Egyptians REALLY loved their dogs and cats — not to mention their snakes, crocodiles and birds. Animals held such a prominent place in ancient Egyptian ...

More than 100 ancient Egyptian artifacts, including mummies, painted sarcophagi and votive objects will be featured at the Museum of Natural History on Feb. 22. The exhibit, which is called Egyptian ...

Scientists have made a rare discovery inside a rare discovery. Researchers with the Warsaw Mummy Project have been studying ancient Egyptian remains since 2015 and recently used cutting-edge computer ...

The Manitoba Museum has opened its latest exhibit, WRAPPED: The Mummy of Pesed, just in time for Halloween. The show features the mummy in her coffin as well as over 60 ancient Egyptian antiquities, ...

The artifacts, found in a tomb in a cemetery in what would have been the ancient city of Memphis, are about 6,000 years old You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you ...

Mummies, they’re just like us. Kind of. The Royal Ontario Museum’s newest exhibit in Toronto is attempting to show visitors how six “average” mummies are a lot like their modern counterparts — aside ...

STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink. But according to scientists researching what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like, you'd be wrong. They emit woody, ...

In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient Egyptian genome from an individual who lived 4,500 to 4,800 years ago – the ...