The "Mysterious Lady" mummy viewed in a mixed-reality system reveals different aspects of the inside of her body. | Credit: Ł. Kownacki An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and ...

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.

For centuries, ancient Egyptian mummies have been the most reliable crowd-pleasers in museums across Britain. London's British Museum alone holds over 100 mummies - bodies wrapped in linen and ...

One incredibly well-preserved 5,600-year-old mummy is now upending much of what we thought we knew about Ancient Egyptian embalming. A new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science ...

A recent study has put an end to a four-year-long scientific debate regarding the “Mysterious Lady,” an ancient Egyptian mummy originally thought to be pregnant and suffering from cancer. First ...

What do ancient Egyptian mummies really smell like? A team of researchers set out to determine whether their modern-day scent still reflects the embalming materials used in antiquity – and what ...

The stuff of dreams for any archaeologist, Piers Litherland and his team, working on a British-Egyptian excavation, might have stumbled upon the second tomb of King Thutmose II in the Western ...

In recent years, there has been growing ethical debates over the display of Egyptian pharaoh’s mummies, with many in the museum sector opting to refer to them as “mummified persons” as a sign of ...

This mummy, on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, was scientifically sniffed to reveal insights into how it was preserved thousands of years ago. Credit: Adapted from the Journal of the American ...

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