One of the oldest known cases of the 'Black Death' plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290-year-old Egyptian mummy. The cvirus Yersinia pestis, or the bubonic plague, is known ...

The Ancient Egyptians built pyramids as giant burial tombs for the most important people in their society, the pharaohs. Inside each of these pyramids is a mummy. Mummification was the way in ...

How are mummies formed? Ancient Egyptians believed in the concept of the afterlife and used a detailed process to preserve the bodies of the deceased for the afterlife. It involved the internal ...

Scientist at the University of Aberdeen are using 3D imaging software to create interactive models of mummies and other ...

The oldest known tattoos were found on remains of a Neolithic man who lived in the Italian Alps around 3,000 B.C. Many mummies from ancient Egypt also have tattoos, as do remains from cultures ...

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed 4,600-year-old ‘well’ tomb and brick tombs, other burials and an ancient mummy in a Greco-Roman catacomb. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and ...

Archaeologists have unearthed over a dozen Egyptian mummies adorned with gold tongues and fingernails in the Behnese area of Middle Egypt. The 2,000-year-old tombs are believed to date back to the ...

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Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 13 ancient mummies with gold tongues and nails in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus. The team made the finds when they dug down to the bottom of a ...

Enter through a three-story replica of a mastaba, a type of ancient Egyptian tomb, that houses two authentic chamber rooms from the burial site of 5th Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Unis’s son Unis-Ankh.

The trove includes not just the 13 gold tongues, but a mummy with golden ... Council of Antiquities of Egypt, told Al-Ahram. Golden tongues are rarely found in ancient Egyptian tombs, perhaps ...