Few visitors wandering through the mummy galleries at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo have the opportunity—or perhaps the inclination—to smell the aromas wafting off the gilded sarcophagi and elaborately ...
EGYPT -- Egyptian scientists have digitally unwrapped the mummified remains of the pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing tantalizing details about the life and death of the Egyptian king for the first time ...
Guests at the newly-opened tomb of the great Ancient Egyptian ruler Amenhotep III can now bask in the splendor of the Colossi ...
EGYPT (WLS) -- Scientists in Egypt have "unwrapped" a mummy that is thousands of years old. They unwrapped the mummy without touching it because the 3,500-year-old mummified remains of the Pharaoh ...
While Egyptian kings and queens are the most famous examples of mummification, the practice wasn’t just for pharaohs. It expanded over time until everyone from the poor up were being preserved for ...
We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient Egyptian mummies smell like? Whether you wanted to know or not, scientists have ...
, uncovered the body's true identity after spotting a tiny foot in the abdomen on a scan. According to Marzena Ozarek-Szilke, anthropologist and archaeologist from the Faculty of Archaeology of the ...
SAQQARA, Egypt — More than 2,600 years since they were buried, archaeologists in Egypt said Saturday they had found at least 59 ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of the country's capital ...
MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt has unearthed an ancient burial site replete with at least 17 mummies, most fully intact, the latest in a string of discoveries that the country's antiquities minister ...
LUXOR, Egypt — Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of ...