EGYPT -- Egyptian scientists have digitally unwrapped the mummified remains of the pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing tantalizing details about the life and death of the Egyptian king for the first time ...

MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt has unearthed an ancient burial site replete with at least 17 mummies, most fully intact, the latest in a string of discoveries that the country's antiquities minister ...

(CNN) — With her mouth wide open, locked for eternity in what appears to be a scream, an ancient Egyptian woman captured the imagination of archaeologists who discovered her mummified remains in 1935 ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists have ...

While Egyptian kings and queens are the most famous examples of mummification, the practice wasn’t just for pharaohs. It expanded over time until everyone from the poor up were being preserved for ...

A mummy, known as the “Untouchable,” was discovered nearly a century ago in the Valley of the Kings region of the ancient city of Luxor. Renowned Egyptologist Howard Carter made the discovery in 1919, ...

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 housed ...

In the 19th century, preserved bodies were not only ceremonially unveiled; owning one became a status symbol. “It would be ...

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