The Manchester Museum in England is inviting guests to share feedback on Asru, an ancient Egyptian woman whose body was ...

We explore new ways to tackle the problem of microplastic pollution in our oceans, before meeting an extraordinary man and ...

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

Ancient Egyptian mummification techniques almost always focused on ensuring the best preservation possible. These methods developed over hundreds of years, and reflected different societal factors ...

Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science described them as "woody," "spicy," and "sweet," with floral notes.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

The individual lived 4,500 years ago, and his genome is offering new insights into ancient Egyptians and the lives they led.

As a teenager, Eid Mertah would pore over books about King Tutankhamun, tracing hieroglyphs and dreaming of holding the boy ...

Researchers wanted to know if today’s mummies still carry traces of the original embalming materials. And if so, could those scents help museums better preserve and explain thes ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...