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A mummy buried in Southern Egypt more than 5,000 years ago has revealed its grisly secrets, shedding new light on prehistoric embalming practices. Researchers from the Universities of York, Oxford and Warwick in the U.K., Macquarie University in Australia, and the universities of Trento and...

This mummy seems to be missing a brain and other vital organs, new images reveal, and the finding suggests the man held a high status when alive 2,500 years ago in ancient Egypt The images indicate that embalmers removed the man’s brain and major organs...

The so-called Maiden mummy of a 15-year-old Incan girl who was sacrificed 500 years ago is giving up some secrets, revealing the teenager suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of her death, scientists report Wednesday (July 25). The researchers analyzed tissue proteins,...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in Michigan seized five jars of ancient Egyptian mummy linen coming illegally through the northern border last month. Inspection of a shipment on a Canadian mail truck in Marysville, Michigan on May 25 revealed the illegal antiquities believed to...

Archaeologists uncovered the 2,500-year-old remains of a powerful ancient Egyptian high priest in dramatic fashion on Sunday. The opening of the priest’s stone sarcophagus was broadcast by the Discovery Channel during “Expedition Unknown: Egypt Live,” a two-hour live event. Archaeologists discovered what they describe as...

A silver face mask gilded with gold, a mummification workshop, mummies and sarcophagi have all been discovered at a tomb complex in Saqqara, Egypt, an Egyptian-German team announced this morning (July 14). The complex contains several burial shafts dug into the ground, some of them...

The mummy of a child discovered in a crypt beneath a Lithuanian church harbors the oldest sample found to date of the virus that causes smallpox, a new report said. But the researchers’ analysis of the virus, called the variola virus, suggests that smallpox first...

The “Screaming Mummy” mystery from ancient Egypt has baffled experts for years but the secret behind the horrifying remains has finally been resolved. When archaeologists first uncovered the mummified body they were surprised to find the face of the long-dead Egyptian distorted in anguish, appearing...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the mummy of a teenager who died about 3,600 years ago. In a Facebook post, Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism explained that the mummy of a 15- to 16-year-old female was found in a wooden coffin that dates back...

It is said that based on numerous archaeological discoveries such as artifacts, records and monuments, and even actual mummified remains of ‘unknown beings’, found in the past by experts, the Anunnaki (Sumerian: “those who came down from the heavens), who were a highly advanced civilization...