He is known to be history's one of most powerful rulers. His mummy was unearthed in 1881 as a well-preserved body that provided details about his physical appearance and health. Ramesses II's ...

100-year-old folklore and pop culture have perpetuated the myth that opening a mummy's tomb leads to certain death. Movie mummies are known for two things: fabulous riches and a nasty curse that ...

We will get to the very beginning of human history, but I'm not going to start there because I want to begin with the mummies -which is where I began when I first came through these doors into the ...

Mummies have been cast by popular culture and ... David Abulafia, professor emeritus of Mediterranean history at Cambridge University, called the decision "strange." Ancient Origins joked that ...

After illuminating the mummies with laser-stimulated fluorescence, or L.S.F., an imaging tool that until now had never been applied to tattoos, scientists discovered lines 0.1 to 0.2 millimeters ...

Now, modern technology is peeling back the layers of history - literally - by revealing ... The researchers examined around 100 mummies from coastal Peru’s Chancay culture – a civilisation ...

A railroad car at Cassia County Museum once housed a traveling show featuring a mummy claimed to be Lincoln assassin John ...