It was used in art and burial practices ... it was frequently encountered in graveyards and wound around mummies. These amulets were not ornaments alone; they were believed to guard the dead ...

Pharaoh’s Animal Kingdom, a new exhibition for children at the Israel Museum, explores the relationship between animals and ...

Its use both in burial practice and in artwork ... it was frequently encountered in graveyards and wound around mummies. These amulets were not ornaments alone; they were believed to guard the ...

The report also shows that the use of stolen, leaked and illicitly obtained user names ... Officers found 41 gold artefacts among the bags, including amulets from a funerary set which prepared the ...

The god Anubis, often depicted with the head of a jackal or wolf-like canid, served as guide to the underworld and overseer of mummification ... evidence suggests wolf teeth and paws were used as ...

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 ...

He adds that “the body is not opened, as in classical Egyptian mummies, through an evisceration cut at the left pelvic region, but through incision of the rectum.” “It’s an exemplary piece ...

The Austrian mummy was found remarkably preserved thanks to a rare embalming method involving wood chips, fabric, and zinc ...

While it is clear that the “air-dried chaplain” is not a natural mummy, more detailed analysis is needed to say definitively whether zinc chloride was used to preserve the remains, said Marco ...

Researchers discovered that a 1746 Austrian mummy was embalmed with wood chips and zinc chloride, preserving internal tissues ...