Archaeologists conducting research in the Egyptian city of Minya unearthed last year a 3500-year-old sarcophagus ... The finding of the mummy, who was covered with a mask and beaded dress ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have ... contrary to their assumption that the mummy was a male priest based on the sarcophagus, it was actually the remains of a woman in her 20s who was ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

The king's mummy and sarcophagus are missing from the royal tomb, which is the second of its kind unearthed this year ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history.

"The sarcophagus was found sealed with mortar, just as the ancient Egyptians had left it 4,300 years ago," Dr. Hawass said on Facebook Thursday. "This mummy may be the oldest and most complete ...

A new book by the artist Dorothy Cross tells the remarkable story of Cecil, UCC’s Egyptian mummy, and his return home ...

Egyptian mummies have always been a subject of great ... Once mummified, the body was placed in a sarcophagus or coffin and sealed within a tomb. For pharaohs, the burial process was even more ...

On the other hand, while on the topic, the famous Egyptian mummies have always ... do you know that even after 5,000 year in sarcophagus (coffin), the mummies manage to smell nice; 'woody' or ...

Inside a stone sarcophagus were three more ... powerful women in the history of Egypt, but her mummy has never been found. Bust of Nefertiti, Egyptian Museum, Berlin. The solar deity was a pretty ...

Part of the 3,600-year-old tomb of the unknown Egyptian king ... and didn't leave any remains of the king's mummy or sarcophagus behind, Wegner said. Archaeologists are still investigating ...