An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...

"It tells us potentially what social class a mummy was from and and therefore reveals ... "Observing the mummified bodies through a glass case reduces the experience because we don't get to ...

What fascinated me then was the mummies themselves, the thrilling gruesome thought of the dead bodies, but I'm now much more interested in the mummy cases - and I've chosen one particular mummy ...

“It tells us potentially what social class a mummy was from and and therefore ... “Observing the mummified bodies through a glass case reduces the experience because we don’t get to smell ...

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 ...

100-year-old folklore and pop culture have perpetuated the myth that opening a mummy's tomb leads to certain death. Movie mummies are known for two things: fabulous riches and a nasty curse that ...

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.