Scientists have revealed the possible cause of death for a legendary mummy whose face is frozen in a permanent "scream." Sahar Saleem / Frontiers Wails from The Crypt? Scientists have revealed the ...

With her mouth wide open, locked for eternity in what appears to be a scream, an ancient Egyptian woman captured the imagination of archaeologists who discovered her mummified remains in 1935 in a ...

New analysis of a 3,500-year-old mummy known as the “Screaming Woman” may revise what makes for a “good” versus “bad” mummification—and potentially solve a mystery that has perplexed Egyptologists for ...

For nearly a century, the “Screaming Woman” mummy found in Luxor, Egypt, haunted viewers with her open-mouth facial expression. Now, new evidence by researchers in Egypt suggest more harrowing details ...

Correction: This story has been updated to clarify the body was estimated to have been buried about 3,500 years ago. More than two millennia ago, an unnamed woman died under unknown circumstances.

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