STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink.But according to scientists researching ...

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient Egyptian mummies with red and even blonde hair, sparking debate, curiosity, and controversy. Were these traits natural? The result of mummification? Or something ...

Most visitors never experience the natural masterpieces that lie off the tourist trail—from bubbling hot springs to unearthly ...

Many Greek speakers worshipped Osiris, god of the afterlife, and inclined toward Egyptian customs in funerary rites. Found at Hawara, this Roman-era mummy of a young boy, on display in the British ...

making it the only royal Egyptian mummy found in the 19th and 20th centuries not yet opened for study. Using non-invasive, digital techniques, Egyptian scientists have used three-dimensional ...

A mummified body, found within a crypt at St. Thomas am Blasenstein in Austria, has confounded researchers for centuries. The ...

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

An archaeological site that used to be a garbage dump has revealed the extraordinarily preserved mummy of an elite woman ... China and Egypt. It even boasts a pyramid to rival the towering Step ...

The isle is home to the site of Cladh Hallan, where rare Bronze Age burial discoveries reshaped British archaeology ...

Centuries later, a capsule-shaped object spotted in an X-ray scan of the mummy revealed that the cleric might have ... This approach to embalming differs from better-known methods used in ancient ...

I attended an event in London this week and took the opportunity to visit the Tutankhamun Immersive Exhibition in the Docklands. It was an experience as the history of Egypt was recreated in a huge ...