Ancient Egypt may have produced more than 70 million mummies, yet relatively few survive today. Kayleigh traces how a ...

"The real novelty is finding a literary papyrus in a funerary context." ...

Long-lost mummies reveal new secrets about ancient Egyptian princesses - New study shows royal women received extensive ...

A 1,600-year-old mummy discovered in Egypt has revealed something archaeologists had never seen before: a fragment of Homer’s ...

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...

A rare discovery reveals that a fragment of Homer's Iliad was placed on a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy during burial, puzzling archaeologists.

Scientists have discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague — marking the first case of the disease outside of the Eurasian continent. The breakthrough ...

New research has revealed interesting information about two of one of Egypt's pharaoh's daughters. The post Egyptian ...

Analysis of six mummies from ancient Egypt challenges the idea that the bows and daggers buried with some royal women were ...

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer's Iliad. It wasn't placed beside the body, but inside the mummy's abdomen. But the ...