An over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague marks the first case of the disease outside the Eurasian continent.

In their co-taught course, LIT 159M/HIS 159M: The Curse of the Mummy, UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of Literature Renee Fox and Associate Professor of History Elaine Sullivan are looking into the ...

The mummy’s curse concept was kicked off by the excavation of the tomb of King Tut. After opening the sealed Egyptian tomb 100 years ago, some people who visited the site started dying.

One of the earliest accounts of an Egyptian mummy curse is the 1699 account of a Polish traveller who transported two mummies from Alexandria. The sea voyage was beset by great storms and the Pole ...

One hundred years ago this past February, English archaeologist Howard Carter entered the sealed burial chamber of the legendary Egyptian ruler King Tutankhamen, revealing its decrepit, yet dazzling ...

A mysterious mummy called “Bashiri” has captivated the minds of Egyptologists for more than a century, but no scholar has ever unearthed it.View on euronews ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

KOM OMBO, Egypt — Since Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamen’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings nearly a century ago, pop culture and folklore have invoked the fabled curse of the mummy, said ...

Researchers who sniffed mummified remains in the name of science were greeted more with a blessing than a curse.