Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. Timelapse video shows speed of ...

Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in ...

The “elegant” face of an ancient Egyptian priestess whose singing was said to be able to calm the gods can be seen for the ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...