Old Egyptian Mummy With ‘Black Death’ DNA, May Have Spread by Fleas on Nile Rats Researchers have finally managed to confirm ...

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 ...

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Researchers found the first evidence of the bubonic plague outside of Europe and Asia in an Egyptian mummy housed in Turin, ...

Egyptologists have uncovered a Pharaonic tomb near the capital Cairo containing what may be the oldest and "most complete" mummy yet to be discovered in the country, the excavation team leader has ...

An Egyptian mummy, over 3,000 years old, may have died from the bubonic plague, providing the first genetic evidence of the disease outside the Eurasian continent, new research shows. The finding ...

shows the frozen mummy and B. shows Panthera leo (Linnaeus ... has very similar traits to the 35,000-year-old cub. This marks the first time remains of this kind have been studied.

The mummified male is estimated to have been more than 45 years old at the time of his death and 1.51m tall (4ft 11in). The mummy was wrapped in bandages in the foetal position which is typical of ...

Stoneman Willie is one of America's oldest mummies, and a century-plus resident of the funeral home. Willie's story and subsequent burial will be part of the City of Reading's 275th anniversary.

Scientists successfully extracted and sequenced DNA from a 3,600-year-old cheese found smeared on mummies in the Xiaohe cemetery in Xinjiang, Western China. The cheese, discovered nearly two ...

100-year-old folklore and pop culture have perpetuated the myth that opening a mummy's tomb leads to certain death. Movie mummies are known for two things: fabulous riches and a nasty curse that ...