Back in medieval and early modern times, doctors regularly prescribed mummy scrapings as a cure-all, believing that the ...

Egyptian mummy known as the Braided Lady, taken from Egypt in 1860, reveals preserved organs, worn teeth and clues to her ...

For thousands of years, the recipes used by ancient Egyptian embalmers have remained partly obscured by the chemical changes ...

T. Berger, A. Naimi,K. Hardes,C. Sachße,R. Gericke,M. Marner,F. Mühlemeyer,T. Pommerening, & R. Reher, New molecular and historical evidence on ancient Egyptian embalming, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A ...

Researchers also tested the medicinal potential of a powder Mumia vera aegyptiaca sample that was likely derived from a ...

For centuries, ground-up mummy was a medical mainstay in Europe – but that was far from the only way that ancient remains ...

Humanity is good at building pyramids, but it turns out they were also good at honestly writing things like "I'm hungover today, so I'm taking the day off" in the official records of the king's ...

A mysterious god with the head of a black jackalAmong the gods of ancient Egypt, there is one with a particularly memorable ...

Embalming is one of the most common options for temporarily preserving bodies after death – but what exactly does it entail? Most people don’t like to think about what happens to people’s bodies after ...

Forensic examination of human remains found around the funerary complexes of Ancient Egyptian kings has uncovered evidence that they belonged to servants who were sacrificed when the monarchs died, ...