No archaeologist dares to open a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy, fearing the loss of a one-of-a-kind burial method.
Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...
After discovering a trove of mummified crocodiles in Egypt, researchers noticed something unexpected—these reptiles had an ...
Archaeologists excavating in the Muskhouta area of Egypt's Ismailia Governorate just uncovered the 3,000-year-old tomb of an ...
A new study found that one crocodile's mummification began "very rapidly after the death," which was caused by blunt force ...
We’re way ahead of anyone in Britain. Ancient Egyptian: What have you got in this linen sack thing anyway? Oh, a calendar! Now that is useful. It’s similar to our own solar calendar which has ...
Ancient Egyptians who could afford it prepared their ... dried, and wrapped in linen. "Victual mummies" is what Ikram calls this gourmet jerky for the hereafter. "Whether or not you got it ...
An ancient military tomb and graves from the Egyptian, Greek, and Roman periods have been discovered at Tell Ruwad Iskandar, ...