Archaeologists excavating the remains of Rome's "Golden House," the opulent palace that Emperor Nero built for himself right ...

“Mummy Portrait of Aline” (1st–2nd century CE), tempera on textile, partially gilded, 16 1/2 x 13 inches (42 x 33 cm) (image CC BY-SA 4.0 via State Museums of Berlin, Egyptian Museum and ...

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 ...

PROF. ELLIOT SMITH and Mr. Warren Dawson have written a very interesting and useful book on mummies, which appears in a most attractive guise (except for some of the illustrations). Its outward ...

Excavations at Domus Aurea, the former imperial residence of Roman emperor Nero, have yielded remnants of the rare Egyptian ...

but a mummy with golden fingernails; and heart scarabs, amulets, funerary pottery, canopic jars that held the removed organs of the deceased; and walls painted with elaborate, gilded scenes depicting ...

The intricate details of tattoos inked more than 1200 years ago have been made visible by scanning South American mummies with lasers. The mummies, belonging to a pre-Hispanic people known as the ...

The Mummy follows a group of adventurers led by Rick O’Connell (Brendan Fraser) and Evelyn Carnahan (Rachel Weisz) as they embark on an expedition to the ancient Egyptian city of Hamunaptra.

After illuminating the mummies with laser-stimulated fluorescence, or L.S.F., an imaging tool that until now had never been applied to tattoos, scientists discovered lines 0.1 to 0.2 millimeters ...

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