Journey to Eternal Life: Ancient Egyptian Artifacts, Mummies, and Pyramids Egyptian Mummies The methods of embalming, or treating the dead body, that the ancient Egyptians used is called mummification ...

When the beard fell off the boy pharaoh's funerary mask in August 2014 at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, employees tried to reattach it with glue. When the botched restoration was noticed it made ...

Archaeologists in Portugal just identified the world's oldest mummies — thanks to a few undeveloped rolls of 60-year-old film ...

More than 30 million people globally have done a family history DNA test, but few realise this multi-billion dollar ...

More than 4,000 years after the pyramids, Egypt’s leaders are pinning hopes on the Grand Egyptian Museum to revive national ...

When people hear of discoveries in Egypt, they normally imagine pharaohs or high-ranking officials whose tombs are adorned with rich objects, elaborate coffins and detailed cartouches informed the ...

Museums are fascinating, but if you're looking for the unique, weird and quirky, you may find these very interesting.

Nestled in a stately limestone mansion along Chicago’s prestigious Gold Coast, the International Museum of Surgical Science stands as a captivating time capsule of medical history that’s equal parts ...

Exploring Grand Palaces, seeing Egyptian mummies and gazing at the Holy Shroud are some of the things to do in Turin. This ...

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

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

The unearthing of an ancient Egyptian mummy has revealed a terrifying bubonic plague that wreaked havoc on humanity before the infamous Black Death swept across Europe. The earliest confirmed case ...