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 ...

A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking it to the Chancay culture that predated the Inca Empire.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

Archeologists unearthed a roughly 1,000-year-old child mummy on the outskirts of Lima, Peru on Monday. The remains are believed to belong to a person age 12 or 13 that lived between 900 and 1 ...