The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

The mystery of the 3,500 year old Egyptian mummy, whose face has been ... form of muscle stiffening that occurs at the moment of death and persists into rigor mortis. However, it's a contentious ...

A new study found that one crocodile's mummification began "very rapidly after the death," which was caused by blunt force trauma to its head.

100-year-old folklore and pop culture have perpetuated the myth that opening a mummy's tomb leads to certain death ... unleashed a global passion for ancient Egypt. Tut's glittering treasures ...

Mohamed Riyad Saeed (1937-2008), an icon of Egyptian surrealism from the second half of the ... Elsewhere, a white shroud is placed in a coffin, mounted by a crow consumed by the silence of death. For ...

Ms Friedman said: "These burials tell a profound story about early beliefs in life after death ... these creatures. The ...

The Egyptian funerary boat on display at the Ure ... from life to the afterlife. Egyptians saw death as a boat journey, a trip across their River Nile, which ran down the centre of their country ...