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

We all know the New Kingdom mummies from ancient Egypt were preserved with a certain sophistication and advanced skill that ...

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), ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once known as “Pharaoh’s Daughter”, the 3000-year-old male mummy took a bizarre path to a cupboard in Glasgow.

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

Gas workers digging beneath a major capital city stumbled upon a 1,000-year-old mummy, almost on the opposite side of the ...

The oldest known Egyptian DNA sample, from a man who lived between 4,500 to 4,800 years ago, offers new insights into the ...