The mummy has a portrait of the buried child placed over its face Scientists at a leading laboratory in the United States are using a cutting-edge form of X-ray to scan inside an Egyptian mummy ...

More than a dozen ancient Egyptian mummies adorned with gold tongues and fingernails were discovered inside 2,000-year-old tombs. A team of Egyptian and Spanish researchers uncovered these ...

A team of Polish scientists say they have discovered the only known example of an embalmed pregnant Egyptian mummy. The discovery was made by researchers at the Warsaw Mummy Project and revealed ...

Archaeologists have uncovered several ancient Egyptian tombs containing dozens of mummies—some of which were found with gold tongues and nails—among other remarkable artifacts. A joint ...

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 ...

The "mummy's curse" first enjoyed worldwide acclaim after the 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt. When Howard Carter opened a small hole to peer ...

Titus Flavius Demetrius was a Roman citizen living in Egypt who wanted to be buried in the Egyptian way.This gold covered mummy mask was made for the Roman citizen Titus Flavius Demetrius who died ...

Image (from CT scan) by Salima Ikram and others, South African Mummy Project Team Peering inside the linen wrappings of an ancient Egyptian bird mummy, a CT scan has revealed a true rara avis—a ...

X-ray scans have finally unravelled the mystery of how a famous ancient Egyptian “locked mummy” was placed inside a coffin with seemingly no entry point. Out of the over dozen Egyptian mummies ...