An Iliad fragment discovered inside an Egyptian mummy shows how Homer’s influence extended across Roman culture, from ...

One common claim about the Egyptian pyramids is that no bodies were ever found inside them. But fragments of mummies, bones, canopic remains, and royal burials have been discovered in several pyramids ...

The so-called Bashiri mummy, nicknamed "The Untouchable", holds a unique place in modern Egyptology. Discovered in 1919 in the Valley of the Kings, it has never been opened due to the exceptional ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery.While other mummies ...

A mummification workshop was discovered in the Saqqara necropolis, along with a communal burial place consisting of several burial chambers, from the Saite-Persian Period.

On June 5, the Royal British Columbia Museum will open a new exhibit on the rituals used in Ancient Egypt to prepare their ...

According to preliminary studies, four of the coffins date to the 18th Dynasty, including one bearing the name of Merit, ...