The notorious Aspergillus flavus - dubbed the "mummy's curse" could hold the secret in the cure for cancer.

This mysterious Egyptian mummy was discovered in 1919 in the Valley of the Kings, but unlike other ancient remains, no researcher has ever dared to unwrap its uniquely preserved bindings.

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the ...

When people died after entering the ancient pyramids for the first time it was blamed on a Pharaoh's Curse or Mummy's Revenge ...

Researchers believe that a fungus thought to be found in ancient tombs may provide a valuable new tool in the fight against ...

The museum poses the question as part of a process of addressing the colonial origins of some of its collections ...

Scientists have discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague — marking the first case of the disease outside of the Eurasian continent.

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Researchers from Slovenia, England, Poland and Egypt collaborated with the Egyptian Museum in Cairo to identify more than 70 unique compounds from air samples taken around each mummy.

3D scans reveal secrets of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy’s coffin. Experts long wondered how Lady Chenet-aa was placed in her cartonnage. By Andrew Paul. Published Oct 28, 2024 4:35 PM EDT.

The scientific name for the infection, Yersinia pestis, wiped out vast swathes of Europe but this new finding means ...