An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that mimicked these diagnoses, researchers have concluded, settling a four-year ...

This image shows the mummy of Esankh, male, Third Intermediate Period (1070-712 BCE), undergoing CT scanning. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases ...

The researchers performed CT scans of 137 mummies from across four continents and found artery plaque in ... "Turns out even a Bronze Age guy from 5,000 years ago had calcified, carotid arteries," ...

Before his discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, it's rumored that Howard Cater, the renowned Egyptologist, ...

A mysterious mummy called “Bashiri” has captivated the minds of Egyptologists for more than a century, but no scholar has ...

In the first published study of the mummy, researchers used X-ray imaging and CT scans to identify several bundles of mummified organs in her abdomen. They also suggested that a poorly preserved ...

No archaeologist dares to open a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy, fearing the loss of a one-of-a-kind burial method.

A new study debunks the long-held mystery that an ancient Egyptian mummy, known as the "Mysterious Lady," was pregnant or had ...

CT scans and X-rays have been used to see what lies beneath the bandages without disturbing them. These techniques have allowed researchers to determine that the Bashiri mummy was once a man who ...

CT scans and X-rays, performed without ever touching the mummy, have revealed to researchers that the mummy of “Bashiri” was a man about 167 centimetres tall. Scholars argue that the mummy ...

we start to get a sense of the petite young woman and not just the mummy.” Retired Orthopaedic Surgeon and currently honorary lecturer in the University of Manchester's KNH Centre for Biomedical ...

By carrying out CT scans of King Tutankhamun's mummy, we were able in 2005 to show that he did not die from a blow to the head, as many people believed. Our analysis revealed that a hole in the ...