A spectacular new institution and a project to sequence the genomes of mummies are fuelling debate over the future of ...

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

Archaeologists working in central Egypt have made an unusual discovery inside an ancient burial in Oxyrhynchus, in the Minya region. The excavation, led by a joint team from the University of ...

A 1,600-year-old mummy discovered in Egypt has revealed something archaeologists had never seen before: a fragment of Homer’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The face of one of the mummies. (Medical Imaging Center (OKK), MNMKK Semmelweis Museum of Medical History) Using medical ...

Archaeologists were stunned after recently discovering one of the greatest works of Western literature placed on top of a mummy in Egypt. The one-of-a-kind discovery was announced by the University of ...

Opening the Vaults: Mummies is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the public to view over 20 mummified individuals from Egypt and Peru held in The Field Museum's extensive collections, including ...

Scientists at the world’s only mummy research institute are combing crypts and caverns for ancient remains—and using new tools to gather fresh insight about how our ancestors once lived. Unlike their ...

The distinctive smell of ancient mummies is helping scientists decode the secrets of Egyptian mummification. By analyzing tiny traces of chemicals in the air around mummy samples, researchers ...