"The real novelty is finding a literary papyrus in a funerary context." ...

A bundle of 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy remains stored in a Hungarian museum collection spent years carrying the wrong ...

Ancient Egypt may have produced more than 70 million mummies, yet relatively few survive today. Kayleigh traces how a ...

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Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 17 mummies in desert catacombs in Minya province, an “unprecedented” find for the area south of Cairo, the antiquities ministry announced Saturday.

A 1,600-year-old mummy discovered in Egypt has revealed something archaeologists had never seen before: a fragment of Homer’s ...

Archaeologists excavated an ancient tomb in Al Bahnasa and uncovered mummies with golden tongues, amulets and wall paintings, photos show. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer's Iliad. It wasn't placed beside the body, but inside the mummy's abdomen. But the ...

Scientists have discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague — marking the first case of the disease outside of the Eurasian continent. The breakthrough ...

The lives of princesses in ancient Egypt are often described as luxurious and sheltered, surrounded by servants in sprawling ...

Analysis of six mummies from ancient Egypt challenges the idea that the bows and daggers buried with some royal women were ...