Skeletal analysis at Tombos, an ancient Egyptian colonial settlement in Nubia, reveals a more complex labor and social ...

The researchers of the University of Southern Denmark found that genetic differences have little to do anything with ...

Discovered by Howard Carter in 1919, the Bashiri mummy remains unopened due to its rare, fragile embalming—leaving its ...

The mummified remains of Ti Ameny Net have resided on the University of Richmond campus for decades. Her journey from Egypt ...

After discovering a trove of mummified crocodiles in Egypt, researchers noticed something unexpected—these reptiles had an ...

Found at the Karnak Temple complex in Luxor, the 2,600-year-old trove includes a necklace depicting a golden trio of Egyptian deities ...

Among the most fascinating mummies discovered outside of Egypt is a tattooed ice mummy found at Ukok Plateau near the border of China and Russia, the latter being one of the largest countries in terms ...

Tattoos are no longer taboo. One in every three Americans now has at least one tattoo. As getting inked becomes more common, potential risks and side effects are being more intensely scrutinized.

The Guanche mummy went on display at Madrid’s National Archaeological Museum (MAN) in 2015. It is the preserved remains of a 35-40-year-old person who it is believed lived between the 12th and ...

The discovery of Thutmose II's tomb last week — the first burial of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh to be discovered ... after Thutmose II's burial, his mummy and the majority of his grave goods ...

Egypt's Valley of the Kings is part of a massive ... probably when priests relocated and reburied the king's mummy to protect it from flooding about 500 years after his death, Litherland says.

What do ancient Egyptian mummies really smell like? A team of researchers set out to determine whether their modern-day scent still reflects the embalming materials used in antiquity – and what ...