Reuters Mostafa Waziri, the secretary general of Egypt's supreme council of antiquities, said it was a "beautiful, colourful tomb" and "one of the most exciting discoveries ever in the area".

Image (from CT scan) by Salima Ikram and others, South African Mummy Project Team Peering inside the linen wrappings of an ancient Egyptian bird mummy, a CT scan has revealed a true rara avis—a ...

ELLIOT SMITH and Mr. Warren Dawson have written a very interesting and useful book on mummies, which appears ... of the history of the practice in Egypt which, being written by the chief authority ...

In fact, the oldest-known Egyptian mummy, dated around 3500 B.C., is believed to have been created in this way. The first "artificial" Egyptian mummies were made around 3000 B.C. These early ...

It's a beautiful object, and it's fascinating ... the children you can hear round about me are also headed for the Egyptian mummies. What fascinated me then was the mummies themselves, the ...

The "mummy's curse" first enjoyed worldwide acclaim after the 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt. When Howard Carter opened a small hole to peer ...

That’s why as a mummy-to-be, you might want to consider an Egyptian baby name (for a first ... Trends to Follow This gorgeous moniker means “beautiful.” Even if your baby isn’t born ...

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed 4,600-year-old ‘well’ tomb and brick tombs, other burials and an ancient mummy in a Greco-Roman catacomb. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and ...

Boris Karloff’s The Mummy returns with a new unwrapped figure from NECA featuring the classic Universal monster.

Ancient Egyptians mummified baboons for religious purposes, but new research reveals they were likely raised in captivity ...

Archaeologists in Egypt discovered literal evidence of the practice, opening tombs dating from the Ptolemaic era (305 B.C. to 30 B.C.) in the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus that featured 13 mummies with ...