A huge 2,300-year-old funerary building and a number of mummy portraits were discovered in Egypt's southern province of Fayoum, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) south of Cairo, the country's ...

Scarabs are real but they’re nothing like the creatures portrayed in The Mummy.In fact, scarabs aren’t just one thing. There are more than 30,000 species of beetle in the family Scarabaeidae ...

Digitally unwrapping the mummy of a teenage boy for the first time, researchers find dozens of amulets -- and a pair of sandals. 2,300-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy Covered in Gold Unwrapped After ...

The mummy had gone unnoticed despite urban development in a district where agricultural fields have been converted into working-class neighborhoods.

Over 1,500 years, some 200 “spells” (as Lepsius dubbed them) were written on the walls of tombs and carved into stone and onto scarab and funerary figurines—and ultimately inscribed, with ...

SAQQARA, Egypt — A superbly preserved 2,300-year-old mummy bearing a golden mask and covered in brilliantly colored images of gods and goddesses was unveiled Tuesday at Egypt’s Saqqara ...

The mummy was probably an adolescent and found in an underground tomb wrapped in a funerary bundle, along with ceramics and rope and including bits of skin and hair.

A superbly preserved 2,300-year-old mummy bearing a golden mask and covered in brilliantly colored images of gods and goddesses was unveiled Tuesday at Egypt's Saqqara Pyramids complex south of Cairo.

In Lima, Peru, gas company workers unearthed a remarkably preserved 1,000-year-old mummy of a boy during pipeline installation. The pre-Inca Chancay culture burial, found just over a metre deep ...