Cat Mummy (Third Intermediate Period to Late Period, 780–390 BCE) and ibis mummy from the ibis cemetery at Abydos (Early Roman Period, 30 BCE–early 1st century CE) in ‘Soulful Creatures: Animal ...

It sounds like the beginnings of a detective tale: researchers in the UK recently scanned 300 animal mummies from Egypt only to discover that a full third held no bodies. Instead of bones, they found ...

SAQQARA, Egypt (AP) — Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities on Saturday revealed details on recently discovered animal mummies, saying they include two lion cubs as well as several crocodiles, birds and ...

Researchers at a UK university have "digitally unwrapped" three mummified animals from ancient Egypt using high-resolution 3D scans. The team were also able to dissect the mummies to learn how the ...

The mummies of the world exhibit is wrapping up this weekend after an exhilarating run at the Museum of Idaho.

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 ...

A ancient Egyptian tomb was uncovered containing ten mummified crocodiles. The tomb's contents was likely sacrificed for the crocodile-headed god Sobek. Crocodile mummies are common, but finding ten ...

What do you think of when you think about ancient Egyptian mummies? Perhaps your mind takes you back to a school trip to the museum, when you came face to face with a mummified person inside a glass ...

, uncovered the body's true identity after spotting a tiny foot in the abdomen on a scan. According to Marzena Ozarek-Szilke, anthropologist and archaeologist from the Faculty of Archaeology of the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 13 ancient mummies with gold tongues and nails in a cemetery at the site of ...

While Egyptian kings and queens are the most famous examples of mummification, the practice wasn’t just for pharaohs. It expanded over time until everyone from the poor up were being preserved for ...