Displaying ancestral remains such as Egyptian mummies in museums is offensive, MPs have claimed. Members of the All-Party ...

After discovering a trove of mummified crocodiles in Egypt, researchers noticed something unexpected—these reptiles had an ...

Researchers discovered ruins of an old African empire’s capital, a grotesque dungeon with ancient scriptures written all over ...

Researchers have uncovered the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia in an ancient Egyptian mummy, suggesting that the deadly disease was present in North Africa thousands of years ...

Image (from CT scan) by Salima Ikram and others, South African Mummy Project Team Peering inside the linen wrappings of an ancient Egyptian bird mummy, a CT scan has revealed a true rara avis—a ...