The hunt for Nefertiti’s mummy leads to a grim chapter in history: Victorian “unwrapping parties,” where mummies were ...

It’s only fitting that TV Theme Night on “The Masked Singer” include an iconic cast reunion onstage. And, it happened right under our noses. During Wednesday’s episode, The Mummies were the first to ...

“The story of mummification begins with a person’s death,” starts the Mummies exhibition now at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Co-curated by David Hurst Thomas, AMNH curator of ...

LONDON — At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies ...

Called simply “Mummies” and running in the museum’s top-floor temporary exhibition spaces until May next year, the exhibition ...

Cairo, Egypt held a parade on Saturday celebrating the transport of 22 of its prized royal mummies to their new resting place in a massive new museum further south in the capital. The ceremony, ...

Mention the word mummy, and you probably think of the shiny case of King Tut or the linen-bandaged walking dead in a George A. Romero film. But if you haven't seen a real mummy (a.k.a. a body whose ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert may have begun mummifying their dead as a form of “art therapy” to help them process their grief following the loss of a loved one. More specifically, ...

Mummies were used for shocking purposes throughout history that would sound quite bizarre today. The ways these ancient mummies were preserved in Egypt left a rich legacy of mummified remains, over ...

Leslie Katz led a team that explored the intersection of tech and culture, plus all manner of awe-inspiring science, from space to AI and archaeology. When she's not smithing words, she's probably ...

In ancient Egypt, so many people worshiped Anubis, the jackal-headed god of death, that the catacombs next to his sacred temple once held nearly 8 million mummified puppies and grown dogs, a new study ...

Archaeologists found more than 40 mummies of men, women and children. LONDON -- Dozens of mummies have been unearthed at an ancient burial site in Upper Egypt, officials said. Egypt's Minister of ...