The 2,300-year-old mummy known as “Bashiri.” Credit: Vania Teofilo / CC BY-SA 3.0 A mysterious Egyptian mummy known as “Bashiri” has captured the attention of archaeologists for more than a century, ...

Scans reveal the mystery pregnant mummy was not pregnant but filled with embalming materials. Credit: A. Ledo/ Warsaw Mummy Project A recent study has ended a four-year-long mystery over an ancient ...

What sets this mummy apart from others is not just its unique wrapping method, but the mysterious and detailed craftsmanship of the cloths themselves. The wrapping process, which included a pattern ...

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.

The discoveries around Egyptian mummies always unravel vital information about the old civilisation. Sometimes there's an eerie and mysterious air in the stories that engulf the mighty pyramids.

The wrapping of the fabrics has created an intricate pattern on the mummy's face which resembles the architectural design of Egypt's famous pyramids. The amount of precision and finesse in the mummy's ...

More than a century after its discovery, it still hides the greatest enigmas ...

The extraordinary care with which that Bashiri mummy was wrapped suggests this person was also of great importance in ancient Egyptian society. But the identity of the corpse remains unknown ...

and it may be the only known mummy to have used this embalming practice. Even though in the past, many researchers and non-researchers alike would unwrap Egyptian mummies for research and non-research ...