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 ...

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 ...

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 ...