The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.

CAIRO, Egypt -- Ancient mummies of Egypt's royal pharaohs will emerge from their resting places this weekend and parade through the streets of Cairo in search of a new home. What sounds like the plot ...

The mummies tested in the study spanned almost the entire history of ancient Egypt, ranging from 2000 BCE to 295 CE. On the whole, the researchers found that mummies from the same historical period ...

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a rare burial chamber where several mummies were interred with thin gold foils in place of their tongues, a startling detail that fuses ritual, status, and ...

(Reuters) - It is a startling image from ancient Egypt - a mummy discovered during a 1935 archaeological expedition at Deir el-Bahari near Luxor of a woman with her mouth wide open in what looks like ...

In the 19th century, preserved bodies were not only ceremonially unveiled; owning one became a status symbol. “It would be ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: KriveArt/Getty Images The ancient Egyptians were not the first culture to mummify their ...

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient Egyptian mummies smell like? Whether you wanted to know or not, scientists have ...

Ancient Egypt. Pyramids. A video for KS2 pupils exploring pyramids in Ancient Egypt - their construction, purpose and the ways they evolved. BBC Teach.