Sole researcher Piers Mitchell, a biological anthropologist from the University of Cambridge, studied the CT scans of 31 ...

An anthropologist reflects on his life, career, and the 1,000-year journey of 400 Nubian mummies. In 1979, Prof. Dennis Van Gerven exhumed the bodies of 400 Nubian mummies from the desert in Sudan.

The extent of the damage is still being assessed, but the museum held some 100,000 artifacts dating back to the Nubian kingdom and the Kushite empire, as well as mummies from 2500 BCE. A fortified ...