As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...

Mummification stood as a symbol of the intrinsic belief of the ancient Egyptians- a life after death. In ancient Egyptian mythology, the Duat (also spelled Duat or Dwat) was the realm of the dead ...

Sheets of gold have been discovered gilding the tongues of more than a dozen mummified Egyptians near modern Al-Bahansa ... to the Ptolemaic era 305 to 30 BCE in the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, which ...

Ancient Egyptian baboon mummies show signs of captivity, with evidence of poor nutrition and inadequate sunlight. (Overview of some skulls available for study.) Credit: Bea De Cupere, CC-BY 4.0 ...

The ancient Egyptians preserved the bodies of important people through mummification. They built special tombs to be buried in, which they filled with all their favourite things. Some pharaohs ...

After illuminating the mummies with laser-stimulated fluorescence ... at the Tennessee Division of Archaeology who specializes in ancient tattoos and was not involved in the study.

“There was a whole infrastructure above ground that was simply removed without documentation.” After learning about the ancient Egyptian “funeral home” and mummification workshop uncovered in Saqqara, ...

The trove includes not just the 13 gold tongues, but a mummy with golden fingernails ... Golden tongues are rarely found in ancient Egyptian tombs, perhaps at least partially due to looting ...

The intricate details of tattoos inked more than 1200 years ago have been made visible by scanning South American mummies with lasers ... “So, to some extent, ancient Chancay tattoos show ...