This mysterious Egyptian mummy was discovered in 1919 in the Valley ... The shroud covering the body reveals even more about his importance. It displays scenes of the deceased lying on a bed ...

So successful were they that today we can view the mummified body of an Egyptian and have a good idea of what he or she looked like in life, 3,000 years ago. Mummification was practiced throughout ...

The Guanche people of the Canary Islands typically mummified all deceased members of their community until the arrival of ...

Scientists have figured out how the body of an 18th-century Austrian vicar has remained so well-preserved for nearly 300 ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Scientists have studied an enigmatic mummy from the crypt of an Austrian church and revealed an unusual embalming method and ...

His Egyptian keepsakes were, in fact, mummies. But Cox—a lawyer ... The drying that prevented decay of the body was accomplished using natron, a mix of four salts found in abundance along ...

Museo EgizioFred, the Turin mummy. 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 ...

An incredible example of this is the little-known case of a mummy located in the church crypt of St Thomas am Blasenstein, in ...

For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming methods differ, but not all of them are studied equally well.

Hyderabad: Telangana State Archaeology Museum, which is the only museum in the state that preserves an Egyptian mummy, is losing its attraction for people and has been reporting a constant decline ...