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

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

Nine steps down a stone staircase in Egypt’s Aga Khan Mausoleum, archaeologists discovered a host of hieroglyphic ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

Penn engineering researchers modified a fungus called Aspergillus flavus, which may have caused lung disease and illness in ...

In the third in his special series of articles exploring the enduring legacy of Tutankhamun, Zahi Hawass searches for the boy ...

The Mummy cast had a major reunion nearly 30 years after the blockbuster movie was made. Brendan Fraser (Rick O'Connell), ...

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

Three ancient tombs have been found in southern Egypt, which may shed new light on one of the least understood chapters in ...

Brendan Fraser dished on why Tom Cruise's The Mummy reboot was a box office flop in comparison to his fan-favourite ...

An Egyptian-Italian archaeological team has announced the discovery of several rock-cut tombs dating to the Greek and Roman ...

A joint Egyptian-Italian team discovered Graeco-Roman tombs with intact mummies and hieroglyphics near Aswan’s Aga Khan ...