An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...

A recent international study led by archaeologist Kamila Braulińska from the University of Warsaw challenged previous claims ...

Police have turned over the mummy to Peru's Ministry of Culture, according to the BBC. Meanwhile, Bermejo is being detained while officials investigate the case, per the report. His two friends ...

Turkish authorities in the historic city of Niğde recently detained six people after finding an unusual possession in one of their homes: a medieval mummy allegedly destined for sale on the black ...

What fascinated me then was the mummies themselves, the thrilling gruesome thought of the dead bodies, but I'm now much more interested in the mummy cases - and I've chosen one particular mummy ...

“It tells us potentially what social class a mummy was from and and therefore ... “Observing the mummified bodies through a glass case reduces the experience because we don’t get to smell ...

It was not uncommon in the 1800s to pick up a box of "mummy pills" made of ground, compressed mummies; they were thought to impart some measure of the eternal. In proper Boston the mummy of a ...

A mummy, to put it bluntly ... can happen by accident or through human intervention but, in either case, it occurs when bacteria and fungi are unable to grow on a corpse and cause its decay.

Takabuti was the first Egyptian mummy to be brought to Ireland. She was brought to Belfast in 1834 by Mr Thomas Greg of Ballymenoch House, Holywood, Co. Down. Her hieroglyphs were deciphered by ...

And because this tomb was flooded shortly after Thutmose II's burial, his mummy and the majority of his grave goods were removed by ancient officials and placed elsewhere — but their ultimate ...

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.