A joint Egyptian and Spanish archaeological team working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus has recovered golden tongue ...

The Tampa Museum of Art is giving a glimpse of Ancient Egypt with a landmark new exhibition that brings world history ...

Archaeologists working at Al-Bahnasa in Egypt’s Minya Governorate have pulled mummies bearing gold tongue amulets and gold nail coverings from ancient tombs spanning at least two distinct historical ...

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer's Iliad. It wasn't placed beside the body, but inside the mummy's abdomen. But the ...

Ancient Egypt has captivated people for centuries, inspiring countless books, documentaries, and blockbuster movies. Yet many ...

The bodies were arranged into crouched positions, then propped over or placed near a fire to slowly dehydrate. Australian National University New research suggests the world’s oldest mummies aren’t ...

A research team from the University of Ljubljana and the Egyptian Museum of Cairo is a winner of the 2025 Gizmodo Science Fair for reproducing the smell of mummies, offering a new window into Ancient ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery. While other ...

Mummies have captivated mankind since the dawn of time. The source of many myths and legends, these carefully preserved bodies hold priceless knowledge about ancient Egypt and its pharaohs.The ...

After Napoleon’s Egypt campaign, the European bourgeoisie became fascinated by pyramids, hieroglyphs and mummies. The latter were shipped to Europe by the thousands, despite laws prohibiting the trade ...