Known as "Fred," this mummy proves that Egyptians had been using embalming practices for 1,500 years longer than scientists believed.

Dammar resin, for example, comes from Shorea trees that grow in the forests of India and Southeast Asia. The Canarium trees used to make elemi resin would have been found in African and Asian ...

Some of those wrappings dated to as early as 4300 BCE (about 600 years older than the Turin mummy), and others dated to as late as 3100 BCE, but none were still associated with an actual mummy.

News; World; Surprising mummy ingredients found at ancient Egyptian workshop Feb. 1, 2023 Updated Thu., Feb. 2, 2023 at 6:57 p.m. Vessels from an embalming workshop in Saqqara, Egypt, contained ...

Fascinated by the “screaming woman” who died 3,500 years ago, researchers used CT scans other techniques to understand what might have caused her striking expression.

A mummy that sat in storage for over 100 years was finally examined, researchers in Cairo said. Scans revealed dozens of golden treasures. Photo from the journal Frontiers in Medicine Much like ...

A mummy that sat in storage for over 100 years was finally examined, researchers in Cairo said. Scans revealed dozens of golden treasures. Photo from the journal Frontiers in Medicine Much like ...