PROF. ELLIOT SMITH and Mr. Warren Dawson have written a very interesting and useful book on mummies, which appears in a most attractive guise (except for some of the illustrations). Its outward ...

Egyptian Mummy Considered to Be of a Male Priest Turned ... The researchers observed that the fetus was inside the woman's body. Experts are not sure why it was not extracted during embalming.

Egyptian mummies are historically important and a popular ... It involved the internal removal of the organs from the deceased's body, treated with natron to dehydrate it and then applied linen ...

2500-2100BC) around the time Egyptians started using coffins more ... For instance, they used sticks to make mummy bundles more rigid or to attach body parts that fell off during mummification. They ...

Placing a body in an oxygen-free environment ... In fact, the oldest-known Egyptian mummy, dated around 3500 B.C., is believed to have been created in this way. The first "artificial" Egyptian ...

The ancient Egyptians viewed preservation of the body after death as crucial to secure ... six centuries after pharaoh Tutankhamen – whose mummy and fabulous funerary objects were found in ...

The health status of people living in ancient times has remained under wraps—quite literally so in the case of Egyptian mummies. But thanks in part to developments in medical imaging ...

Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...

The Egyptian mummy arrived in Calcutta in 1882 and was mentioned in the museum’s list of attractions ... the deputy director of the museum. The body of the mummy is seen wrapped in cloth, the arms ...

When it comes to ancient Egypt, they can draw the ... would not have been found near the body. "Ushabtis were never put inside of the bodies of a mummy. They were typically buried around them ...