STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink.But according to scientists researching ...

But what is the Eye of Horus and what did it mean to the ancient Egyptians? According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the ...

Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses I sat longer at Emory University than he did on the throne. His presumptive remains now lay encased in glass at Egypt’s Luxor Museum, a simple cloth draped from his ...

Once destined for the afterlife, these ancient dead had become commercial goods, shipped to Europe where they were crushed ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week it had successfully recovered a rare trove of smuggled ...

T attoos found on the face and arm of an ancient South American mummy are completely unlike any other known examples of ...

Egypt has received 25 ancient artifacts from the US after a three-year legal and diplomatic effort involving U.S. authorities ...

That is probably why this type of amulet is found in many burials, often included in the mummy wrappings." The ancient Egyptian civilization lasted more than 3,000 years, and practices surrounding ...

The items spanned centuries and included a range of styles from different eras of ancient Egyptian civilization, the ministry said. A portrait of a mummy from Faiyum, Egypt, a gold coin from the ...