Warren Dawson have written a very interesting and useful book on mummies, which appears in a ... besides a sketch of the history of the practice in Egypt which, being written by the chief ...

Egyptian mummies are historically important and a popular source of interest for people even today. These mummies provide information to archeologists and researchers about the culture and common ...

13, 1883, stating that the Egyptian mummy secured for Cornell University by that gentleman would leave Cairo for Liverpool en route ... View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Archaeologists in Egypt discovered literal evidence of the practice, opening tombs dating from the Ptolemaic era (305 B.C. to 30 B.C.) in the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus that featured 13 mummies ...

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 mummies were made around 3000 B.C. These early ...

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 ...

Many of the tombs featured a range of artifacts that could redefine what scholars know about ancient Egypt. Archaeologists uncovered parts of Queen Hatshepsut’s Valley Temple from the Middle ...

Prominent Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has launched a petition for the return to Egypt of the pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Neues Museum in Berlin.

A 4,000-year-old Egyptian mummy, one of Indian Museum’s major attractions, has been temporarily shifted from its usual display space in the first-floor Egyptian gallery. The Central Public Works ...

One of the oldest known cases of the 'Black Death' plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290-year-old Egyptian mummy. Technically known as the virus Yersinia pestis, the bubonic ...

The effects of The Mummy might be what enables Imhotep to unleash the ten plagues of Egypt upon the world, but Arnold Vosloo’s performance in a dead language makes the supernatural mummy a ...