The ancient Egyptian mummy Djeher as imaged with a CT scanner. Djeher was found to have heart artery and other vascular disease. Djeher lived between 304 and 30 BC.

For many years, people believed that those who disturbed the tomb of the mummies of Ancient Egypt were doomed to die.

The myth of the "curse of the pharaohs" has been dismissed as Egypt held a Golden Parade of ancient mummies through Cairo on Saturday. "There's no curse at all," Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass ...

CT scans on ancient Egyptian mummies reveal prevalence of blocked arteries, heart disease among elites. ... New mummy curse: Hardening of the arteries. May 18, 2011 / 3:00 PM EDT / CBS News ...

She didn’t smoke. Never ate a double-bacon cheeseburger. Never sacked out on the couch watching cable. Yet by the time she reached her early 40s, she was a candidate for ...

One hundred years ago this past February, English archaeologist Howard Carter entered the sealed burial chamber of the legendary Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen, revealing its decrepit, yet dazzling ...

The Mummies' Curse: Heart Disease. By ABC News. ... in mummies up to 3,500 years old. ... one American and one Egyptian, saw a sign on a mummy at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo, ...

16 February 1923: The Curse of Tutankhamun is awaken. For long before the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb, theories of curses over anyone who disturbs the mummy of an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh ...

Some unfortunate events in Egypt, like the Suez Canal blockage, are being blamed on a possible "pharaoh's curse" as 22 mummies are set to be relocated.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has been running "Operation Mummy's Curse" since 2009 to bust a network of antiquities smugglers. Thousands of repatriations ...

An ancient Egyptian princess would have needed bypass surgery if she'd lived today, according to researchers who examined the mummy and found blocked arteries in her heart in what's now the oldest ...