The British Museum, renowned for its vast and diverse collection of over eight million artifacts, continues to draw global ...

A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia, has uncovered compelling evidence of the empire’s formidable bureaucracy.

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously unknown ancestry. DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains ...

It is one of the oldest and greatest stores of knowledge: a vast library of texts amassed by Assyrian King Ashurbanipal, who ruled ancient Mesopotamia about 2700 years ago. But after his death ...

Shocking DNA findings from two mummies discovered in Northern Africa may rewrite the family tree of human history. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Germany found that these ancient ...

A mysterious mummy called “Bashiri” has captivated the minds of Egyptologists for more than a century, but no scholar has ever unearthed it. A mummy, known as the “Untouchable,” was ...

Before his discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, it’s rumored that Howard Carter, the renowned Egyptologist, discovered another mummy in 1919. Known as either the Bashiri Mummy, the Mummy of ...

But doing so can unlock new pieces of the past, according to a new study. “Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija Strlič, a professor of analytical chemistry at the ...

The Mummy simply cannot stay dead. Lee Cronin, Atomic Monster, and Blumhouse are forming a formidable trio to create a new The Mummy film that will really lean into horror. After all, what could ...