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General view of a parade at a ceremony of a transfer of royal mummies in Cairo, Egypt, on April 3, 2021, i Host Broadcaster/Reuters TV More than 20 of Egypt's ancient royal mummies were transported to ...

Thanks to their exquisite mummification practices, ancient Egyptians have left for us mounds of physical evidence detailing their physiologies at time of death. Including what treasures they had in ...

The exhibition also includes more recent archaeological discoveries from Saqqara – the necropolis of the ancient capital ...

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 nearly perfectly mummified body of Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep I was recently unwrapped and studied by researchers. The team used three-dimensional CT (computed tomography) to digitally unwrap ...

One Egyptian mystery was “unwrapped” by computers this week. Egyptologists digitally unwrapped a 3,500-year-old pharaoh for the first time, giving historians insight into a new period of Egyptian ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

For 3,000 years, a mummy of the pharaoh Amenhotep I hid its secrets. Researchers in Egypt have used a CT scan to find out new details about just what the mummy was hiding. About 3,500 years ago, a ...

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 ...