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

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

This mummy of a woman, who was approximately 40-years old, was found in the main chamber of the same tomb. Her tall stature, high nose, and red hair indicate that she was of European descent.

The mysterious Bashiri mummy has captivated Egyptologists for more than a century. Known as the untouchable one, the mummy ...

The Guanche mummy was an adult male, approximately 1.62 meters tall, lying supine with long hands on his thighs. It consists of the mummified remains of one of the ancient inhabitants of the ...

While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now ...

KURASHIKI, Okayama Prefecture—Researchers using high-tech equipment have reached a conclusion concerning a mysterious and creepy “mermaid mummy” long kept at a temple here: It is mostly fake.

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

have revealed to researchers that the mummy of “Bashiri” was a man about 167 centimetres tall. Scholars argue that the mummy dates back to the Ptolemaic period, between the 2nd and early 3rd ...