The colorful mummy masks, which would have been worn by the dead, probably date to the Roman period (29 B.C. to A.D. 641), according to Nozomu Kawai, the director of the Institute for the Study of ...

It was recently announced that a team of Russian researchers working roughly 50 miles outside of Cairo discovered a mummy wearing a detailed, blue and gold burial mask, reports Newsweek.

A silver face mask gilded with gold, a mummification workshop, mummies and sarcophagi have all been discovered at a tomb complex in Saqqara, Egypt, an Egyptian-German team announced this morning ...

Ancient Egypt: Two Pyramids Opened for the First Time in Decades—New Mummies, Masks and Tools Revealed Published Jul 15, 2019 at 8:10 AM EDT Updated Jul 15, 2019 at 9:28 AM EDT By ...

If only the 3,000-year-old mummy mask at the Saint Louis Art Museum could talk. Maybe then the mystery of its rightful owner could be laid to rest, much like it was in an ancient Egyptian pyramid ...

Amenhotep's mummy, adorned with decorations on its linen wrapping and its funerary mask, was found along with those of other kings and queens in a cache in Luxor in 1881 and transferred to Cairo.

This mask was excavated at Hawara in Egypt in 1888 by the famous archaeologist Flinders Petrie. It shows that even 2000 years ago people were fascinated by Ancient Egypt and wanted to be part of it.

Some museums in Britain are now using words other than "mummy" to describe their displays of ancient Egyptian human remains. 24/7 Live Chicago & Suburban Cook Co. North Suburbs West Suburbs South ...

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 ...

The mummy mask of Ka-nefer-nefer stands in the Egyptian display at the St. Louis Art Museum on Feb. 15, 2011. Photo by Christian Gooden [email protected] Christian Gooden • P-D ...

But some museums in Britain are now using words other than "mummy" to describe their displays of ancient Egyptian human remains.. Instead, they are starting to adopt terms such as "mummified ...