It was a parade 3,000 years in the making. On Saturday, Cairo's roads temporarily closed for a procession of mummies that paraded through the streets as 22 royal mummies and 17 royal sarcophagi were ...

Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed a sealed packet of the epic poem resting atop a Roman-era mummy, suggesting they may have been used as a magical ward for the afterlife.

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife.