The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has confirmed that human remains dating back to the Ptolemaic period (about ...

Many museums worldwide have Egyptian animal mummies in their collections and among them are numerous crocodiles. These specimens were collected in large numbers, especially in the late 19th and ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 13 ancient mummies with gold tongues and nails in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus. The team made the finds when they dug down to the bottom of a ...

To date, tens of millions of animal mummies have been unearthed in Egypt. But while there are millions of mummified cats, dogs, ibises and birds of prey, primate mummies are rare — and little ...

After illuminating the mummies with laser-stimulated fluorescence, or L.S.F., an imaging tool that until now had never been applied to tattoos, scientists discovered lines 0.1 to 0.2 millimeters ...

Putting their mummy where their mouth is. A baker’s dozen of mummies with golden tongues and fingernails have been discovered in 2,000-year-old tombs in middle Egypt.

During a turbulent period in ancient Egypt, common people turned to animal mummies to petition the gods, inspiring the rise of a massive religious industry A shrew mummy (top), found at an animal ...

Cheese discovered inside coffin with ancient mummies dates back thousands of years The cheese, made from goat's milk, is about 3,500 years old, scientists say. By Ashley J. DiMella Fox News.

Researchers have unveiled long "hidden" and finely detailed tattoo designs on the skin of ancient mummies from Peru, a study reports. Tattoos were a prevalent art form in pre-Hispanic South ...

More than a dozen ancient gold tongues have been discovered in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

(CNN) — To date, tens of millions of animal mummies have been unearthed in Egypt. But while there are millions of mummified cats, dogs, ibises and birds of prey, primate mummies are rare — and ...