The Manchester Museum in northern England is asking visitors whether it should withdraw an ancient Egyptian mummy from its ...

Researchers wanted to know if today’s mummies still carry traces of the original embalming materials. And if so, could those scents help museums better preserve and explain thes ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

An ancient Egyptian mummy is the oldest covered with gold, but it's not the oldest ancient Egyptian mummy on record. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...