A 12th-century translation error kicked off a 700-year trade in mummies, depopulating the tombs of Egypt to populate European ...

Researchers in Poland have made quite the unique discovery, they have found the remains of the first embalmed pregnant ...

Back in ancient times, the world of medicine was filled with odd remedies and strange cures that claimed to tackle […] ...

Technology Puts a Face on Egyptian Mummies. By Louis Jacobson. September 11, 2000 at 1:00 a.m. EDT. EAST LANSING, Mich.

Baltimore marks the 27th stop on his current tour, where attendees will hear about several new discoveries, including a newly-found pyramid and a lost city.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Formally known as "CIT8", the Screaming Woman mummy was unearthed at Deir el-Bahari, a tomb complex in the Thebian necropolis, during the Metropolitan Museum of New York's 1935 expedition to Egypt.

An ancient Egyptian mummy nicknamed the ‘Screaming Woman’ may owe her terrifying appearance to an agonizing death, according to the authors of a new scientific study that used cutting edge ...

Archeologists discover oldest non-royal mummy ever in Egypt 01:31. At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse.. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the ...

The race to save the world's oldest mummies 04:20. The mummy of an ancient Egyptian woman with her mouth wide open in what looks like an anguished shriek may have died "screaming from agony ...

Most people know what an ancient Egyptian mummy looks like, but they probably can’t tell you about how they smell. You don’t have to wait to get up-close-and-personal to one in a museum to ...