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

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

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

The oldest confirmed case of the illness in an ancient Egyptian mummy has shown the bubonic plague was around thousands of ...

However, the ancient Egyptian mummy, housed at the Museo Egizio in Turin, Italy, has now shown the plague was also prevalent in North Africa during the early Bronze Age, reports the Mirror US.

The mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun will not be transferred to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Cairo and will remain in its ...

Researchers in Poland have made a unique discovery: the remains of the first embalmed pregnant ancient Egyptian mummy, known as the “Mysterious Lady.” Dating from the 1st century BCE, this ...

In 1868 the Museum of Zagreb in Croatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, acquired an Egyptian mummy of a woman. Her previous owner had removed her wrappings but held on to them.

In a “first time” revelation, the Egyptian government has announced an ancient tomb uncovered in Egypt belongs to King ...

The director of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, Ali Abdel-Halim, confirmed that the mummy of the young King Tutankhamun will not be transferred with the rest of his belongings to the Grand Egyptian ...

Srishti Ghosh Shinde ...