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

Dark, direct, soulful: The eyes of the Al Fayyum portraits stare out and invite viewers in to see the faces of Egyptians who lived thousands of years ago, when the Greek Ptolemy rule gave way to Rome.

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 ...

Analysis of a mummy kept for a century at the University of Turin in Italy has revealed rare face tattoos made with a special ...

Ancient Egypt is known for a great many things — pyramids, mummies, colorful gods and magic. But one of the least known of ...

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

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

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

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