Thousands of children in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, UN children’s ...

When a research team from Eurac Research entered the warehouses of the National Archaeological Museum in La Paz a couple of ...

Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This ...

The depiction of a beloved 'Simpsons' character has been discovered inside a 3,500-year-old mummy's sarcophagus in Egypt.

Over the past six months, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry and foreign ...

This unique disk-shaped bowl, found in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian tomb, has puzzled archaeologists for nearly a century.

Summary "This work examines Egyptian mummies as artifacts in pre-1900 America--how they got here, what happened to them, and how they were perceived. Collected newspaper accounts and other documents ...

Egyptian archaeologists located a lost 3,500-year-old cemetery containing mummies and statues—among other discoveries. They found a “Book of the Dead” papyrus scroll measuring over 43 feet long—a rare ...

While the “Book of the Dead” may continue to interest researchers—the Egyptian ministry says they expect the scroll to be displayed in the Grand Egyptian Museum—the text wasn’t the only item found in ...

Though the museum paid collector Bill Jamieson $2 million for Ramses I, nine other mummies, nine coffins and other Egyptian artifacts to enhance its Egyptology collection, it has said all along ...

The mummies of Vác remain relatively unknown, despite numbering in the hundreds. When people hear the word “mummy,” they usually think of Egyptian pharaohs—a natural association, as the term was ...