Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” ...

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A Roman‑era tomb in Egypt’s Minya Governorate has yielded bizarrely ordained mummies, rare papyri, and artifacts that ...

The intricate mysteries of ancient Egyptian mummification are being unraveled at Semmelweis University in Hungary, where researchers have employed a state-of-the-art photon-counting CT scanner to ...

Archaeologists had previously uncovered Greek papyri in mummies, but this discovery marks the first time a literary text has ...

LONDON — At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies ...

Discovery of ancient remains challenges existing evolutionary theories.

Do mummies belong in museums? The instinctive answer may be “yes,” but that answer might change when you consider what a mummy actually is. A mummy, simply put, is a body that’s unusually well ...

Cairo, Egypt held a parade on Saturday celebrating the transport of 22 of its prized royal mummies to their new resting place in a massive new museum further south in the capital. The ceremony, ...