A 12th-century translation error kicked off a 700-year trade in mummies, depopulating the tombs of Egypt to populate European ...

Ancient writers, modern scientists, and the mummies themselves all help us better understand the Egyptian mummification process and the culture in which it existed. Much of what we know about the ...

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

In a groundbreaking scientific discovery, an international research team has successfully sequenced the first whole ancient ...

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 ...

The Manchester Museum is running a public consultation about the future of Asru, a woman who lived in Thebes, southern Egypt ...

An Egyptian genome has finally been unraveled, thanks to a sample from an at least 4,500 year-old mummy dating back to the ...

The Musée de l'Homme takes us into the fascinating history of mummies, with a promising exhibition-event to be discovered ...

From mid-November onwards, the Hong Kong Palace Museum will host the ‘Ancient Egypt Unveiled: Treasures from Egyptian Museums ...