For thousands of years, Abydos has been the city of the dead. It’s one of Egypt’s most sacred and ancient burial sites, ...

The mummy was discovered in 1919, is covered with bandages that mimic the Pyramids of Giza, and remains in the Egyptian ...

No archaeologist dares to open a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy, fearing the loss of a one-of-a-kind burial method.

The mysterious 'Bashiri' mummy has captivated the minds of Egyptologists ... three years before he uncovered King Tutankhamun's lavish tomb. The technique used to wrap this ancient corpse ...

Most Inca mummies were arranged in the familiar fetal position and were either wrapped in leather or cloth, or placed in baskets or under huge ceramic jars. These "mummy bundles" were often ...

250 Ancient Mummy Coffins and 150 Bronze Statues Discovered in Egyptian Necropolis — See Some of the Treasures The discovery was part of a "group of Old Kingdom tombs," which included resting ...

100-year-old folklore and pop culture have perpetuated the myth that opening a mummy's tomb leads to certain death. Movie mummies are known for two things: fabulous riches and a nasty curse that ...

(Mahoney quotes Florence Nightingale writing, “I bring home some little figures I found in the tombs.”) “I didn’t ask them to write particularly about moving a mummy back to Egypt,” says ...