When you hear the word mummy, chances are you think of ancient Egypt. Many different cultures embalmed their deceased, ...

The long-dead vicar, who passed away in 1746, has an unusual embalming method to thank for his extraordinary durability. But ...

For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming ...

A century-old mystery claims that Egyptian-style artifacts and dozens of mummies were discovered in an underground complex ...

Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. Across the U.S., constituents offer ...

Egypt is forecasting a 6 per cent annual increase in international visitors this year to reach 16.8 million travellers, ...

Research suggests cat sacrifices in Egypt may have helped shape the tameness of today’s house cats, reshaping the history of ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

"The wedjat amulet is associated with healing and protection. That is probably why this type of amulet is found in many ...

nor mummy remains. But what survives hints at its lost splendor. "I think it would have been a very richly-equipped burial for this period in ancient Egypt," Wegner says. "The architecture is ...

Pharaoh Ramesses II holding an Egyptian passport may sound like something out of a bizarre pub quiz, but it's not a joke.