ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered a huge tomb belonging to one of ancient Egypt’s earliest pharaohs. But with no mummy left ...

One such discovery occurred recently, according to The Guardian, when experts unearthed the tomb and mummified body of ...

This comes only days after the team’s landmark discovery of the pharaoh’s first tomb. Litherland suspects the tomb may hold ...

In proper Boston the mummy of a pharaoh's son stood on the bar of a venerable men's club until the late 1960s, when he was returned to his homeland. We have come to understand "mummy" as meaning a ...

inserted into his mummy’s wrappings. In addition, hundreds of artifacts—furniture, weapons, clothing, games, food and jars of wine (all for the pharaoh’s use in the afterlife)—were left ...

The best prepared and preserved mummies are from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Dynasties of the New Kingdom (ca. 1570–1075 BCE) and include those of Tutankhamen and other well-known pharaohs.

One detail gives him hope: They haven't yet found this mystery pharaoh's canopic jars, which store a mummy's organs. Sometimes tomb robbers would grab and later discard canopic jars, Wegner said.

Getting a body ready for eternal life takes time. Priests and embalmers during the 18th Dynasty (c. 1550-1319 B.C.) generally spent 70 days preparing a pharaoh for burial—from the first ...

Movie mummies are known for two things ... almost 20 years after the tomb's opening. But while the pharaoh's curse may lack bite, it hasn't lost the ability to fascinate audiences—which may ...

The University of Manchester is hosting a day school to discuss the scientific study of ancient Egyptian mummies, which will include the question, was the great Pharaoh Ramesses II a true redhead?

Here, the sarcophagus (a large stone-built coffin usually displayed on ground level) would have held the mummified pharaoh. Except there’s nothing there. The burial chamber was never completed, there ...

One detail gives him hope: They haven't yet found this mystery pharaoh's canopic jars, which store a mummy's organs. Sometimes tomb robbers would grab and later discard canopic jars, Wegner said. It's ...