Mummification is among the best-known religious practices of the ancient Egyptians, yet apart from a few textual descriptions and tomb paintings, very little is known about the facilities where this ...

Santa Fe Fire Chief Brian Moya shared new insights into the mummification process following the deaths of Gene Hackman and ...

Thomas Pettigrew, a nineteenth-century surgeon and antiquarian, threw parties in London at which he unwrapped ancient Egyptian mummies for his guests’ titillation. Modern scanning technologies mean ...

We dig into the missing heart of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun and what archaeologists have learned a century since the discovery of the young pharaoh’s tomb. This spectacular mask represents an ...

A painting of a woman on lime wood is one of the mummy portraits being studied by researchers using special camera filters under different light wavelengths (left to right: visible, ultraviolet, and ...