Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we think we know about the timeline or the circumstances under which ...

Cat Mummies Were a Big Thing in Ancient Egypt Archaelogists uncover what appear to be cat mummies–a common practice around the Ptolemaic period. But an x-ray scan reveals a surprise: the mummies ...

Are our cats hiding a touch of ancient Egyptian magic and pharaonic flair? An unusual collaboration between a cat food ...

Egyptian mummies have always been a subject of great interest, not only from researchers and scientists, but the general population as well. In ancient Egypt, mummification was a long and complex ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is home to cat mummies as part of our anthropology collections. Cat coffins and representations of the cat-headed goddess Bastet are among the ...

Ancient Egypt is best known for the pyramids of Giza, the giant Sphinx, and mummies. However, the early Egyptians also left behind other ancient clues that we can use to learn about their daily ...

“Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija Strlič ... scientists identified nine mummified people from Cairo’s Egyptian Museum. Some of the remains dated back to the ...

On the other hand, while on the topic, the famous Egyptian mummies have always been a topic of intense interest, having been featured in many movies too. These mummies were bodies that were ...