Cairo celebrated the long-awaited opening of its National Museum of Egyptian Civilization with a procession of 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies, transporting them across the city to their new home, ...

Mexico City — Mexico's federal archaeology agency on Monday accused the conservative-governed city of Guanajuato of mistreating one of the country's famous mummified 19th century bodies. The National ...

BRIDGEPORT — For more than a century, visitors have been able to get a glimpse of ancient people with the mummy and its coffin at the Barnum Museum. The coffin tells the story of a male priest named ...

Researchers are using 3D analysis to uncover lost connections among ancient artifacts, revealing how fragments of Egyptian ...

A Jan. 23 Facebook post post (direct link, archived link) claims the British Museum has implemented a new rule about the way it discusses mummies. “The British Museum has tragically succumbed to ...

A 2,000-year-old mummy was analyzed by Field Museum scientists this week. The scientists looked further into the artistic techniques behind a portrait that was part of the wrappings of the Egyptian ...

Talk about an identity crisis. Doctors now say that a 2,000 year−old Egyptian mummy in the Brooklyn Museum — thought to be Lady Hor — is actually a “he.” A CT scan last week determined the mummy’s ...

The day after the artifacts vanished from the Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, officials arrested 52-year-old Miguel Simon Mungarrieta Monsalve. “The defendant believed it was his duty to acquire ...