As the BBC reports, the novel lighting tools have already paid off for researchers, revealing a long-faded name written on the footplate of a mummy case being held at a museum in England.

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 ...

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An Egyptian mummy, over 3,000 years old ... This molecular evidence points to a severe, advanced case of the disease at the time of death. In the abstract, the researchers wrote, “This is ...

When you think of a mummy, you might think of a slow-moving dude wrapped in bandages. That isn’t always the case, though. Just look at The Mummy. Specifically, the 1999 film, which is a favorite ...

A mummy, to put it bluntly ... can happen by accident or through human intervention but, in either case, it occurs when bacteria and fungi are unable to grow on a corpse and cause its decay.

Takabuti was the first Egyptian mummy to be brought to Ireland. She was brought to Belfast in 1834 by Mr Thomas Greg of Ballymenoch House, Holywood, Co. Down. Her hieroglyphs were deciphered by ...