According to the researchers who have worked with them, not all that bad. They’ve used descriptors like woody, spicy, and ...

Animal mummification in ancient Egypt was a carefully organized practice that connected spiritual beliefs with economic activity. This wasn’t a rare or occasional ritual but a large, sustained ...

EGYPT -- Egyptian scientists have digitally unwrapped the mummified remains of the pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing tantalizing details about the life and death of the Egyptian king for the first time ...

Archaeologists in Saqqara are amazed today by the discovery of a 4,300-year-old mummy covered in gold that has been found intact in Egypt.

They believed that when an individual dies, the soul remains to journey on into the afterlife, which is where all possessions lost on earth are restored. Therefore, they preserve their bodies even in ...

EGYPT (WLS) -- Scientists in Egypt have "unwrapped" a mummy that is thousands of years old. They unwrapped the mummy without touching it because the 3,500-year-old mummified remains of the Pharaoh ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists have ...

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CAIRO, Egypt -- Ancient mummies of Egypt's royal pharaohs will emerge from their resting places this weekend and parade through the streets of Cairo in search of a new home. What sounds like the plot ...

Each mummy was scanned in its sarcophagus, which weighs about 200 pounds. Then 3D models of the two Egyptian priests were ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- Ancient mummies of Egypt's royal pharaohs will emerge from their resting places this weekend and parade through the streets of Cairo in search of a new home. What sounds like the plot ...