Ancient Egypt is best known for the pyramids of Giza, the giant Sphinx, and mummies. However ... that people who study ancient Egyptian history have a special name: Egyptologists.

Uncovering mummies is a sure way to prompt Ancient Egyptian curses that might be true, which explains why the Bashiri mummy has remained undisturbed for more than two millennia. This mysterious ...

The best-known mummies, human and animal, are probably those that underwent elaborate embalming and burial procedures in ancient Egypt ... been practiced throughout history—by the Chinese ...

The 4,000 year old Ancient Egyptian tomb belonged to a 1,000s of years old Egyptian King, with a sacrificial table found ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered a huge tomb belonging to one of ancient Egypt’s earliest pharaohs. But with no mummy left ...

The museum would one day be known as the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ... mummies from NMNH collections, at the museum’s exhibition “Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt.” ...

The discovery sheds some light on a "lost" dynasty of pharaohs who ruled during a little-understood time in ancient Egypt's long history.