Using modern scanning techniques, experts at the British Museum have concluded that Ginger, one of the museum's most popular Egyptian mummies, died a violent death around 5,500 years ago.

The world’s oldest figurative tattoos have been discovered on two 5,000-year-old mummies from Egypt. ... Tufts of ginger-colored hair can still be seen on his scalp.

Archeologists uncovered what is likely the oldest mummy ever discovered in Egypt on Thursday. Archaeologists discovered the 4,300-year-old Hekashepes near the Step Pyramid wrapped in gold leaf.

The mummy, "found inside covered with gold leaf … may be the oldest and most complete mummy found in Egypt to date," he said. The find, dating from about 2500 B.C. to 2100 B.C., ...

The world's oldest figurative tattoos have been discovered on two 5,000-year-old mummies from Egypt. Latest ... Tufts of ginger-colored hair can still be seen on his scalp.