The director of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, Ali Abdel-Halim, confirmed that the mummy of the young King Tutankhamun will not be transferred with the rest of his belongings to the Grand Egyptian ...

Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. "Pandora's box": Russia issues new ...

In 2016, computer technology confirmed the mummy's gender, revealing she had no male anatomical features, mummified breasts, and long curly hair. Estimates suggest she died between ages 20 and 30 ...

Egyptian mummy's horrifying fate changes everything experts knew about disease The scientific name for the infection, Yersinia pestis, wiped out vast swathes of Europe but this new finding means ...

In a stunning archaeological find, a 1,000-year-old mummy has been discovered just over a metre below ground during a routine gas pipeline installation in Lima, Peru. The remains, believed to be ...

Egyptian mummy's 'horrifying fate' changes everything experts know about plague The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years ...

However, the ancient Egyptian mummy, housed at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, has now shown that the plague was also prevalent in North Africa at the start of the Bronze Age, reports the Mirror US.

For nearly 140 years, except for a brief stay in the United States, the ancient mummy lay in a tiny museum in Niagara Falls, Ont. All visitors knew it was ...

Appropriately, this community's very own Egyptian mummy resides at the Racine Heritage Museum, 701 Main St. But before arriving there in 1941, the desiccated being spent a few decades visiting ...

An Egyptian genome has finally been unraveled, thanks to a sample from an at least 4,500 year-old mummy dating back to the ...

Despite the recent backlash, it's worth noting that the original concept for the Statue of Liberty was inspired by sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s sketches of veiled Egyptian women.

Whenever you enter any museum or gift shop in Egypt, you see the same thing. Either it’s a mummy or a magnet of Nefertari to plaster on your fridge. Egyptian Identity seems to be interlaced with its ...