When you hear the word “mummy,” you might think of spooky stories, bandaged figures with outstretched arms, or even the ...

Inside the sarcophagus they discovered the boy king's mummy wearing a mask fashioned from gold and semi-precious stones.

Julius Caesar, Napoleon, Pétain, De Gaulle, Eisenhower… Many great military leaders, thanks to the popularity and prestige ...

Learn about the first whole genome from Ancient Egypt, which has shed light on the life and ancestry of a potter who lived ...

Fleas—primary carriers of plague—have been found in Amarna, an ancient Egyptian city. A mysterious 3,500-year-old Egyptian medical text known as the Ebers Papyrus also describes a disease, noting that ...

Fleas—primary carriers of plague—have been found in Amarna, an ancient Egyptian city. A mysterious 3,500-year-old Egyptian medical text known as the Ebers Papyrus also describes a disease, noting that ...

After thousands of years in the afterlife you might expect to stink like a moldy old scrotum, but as it turns out, ancient Egyptian mummies are still surprisingly easy on the nose.

Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations, by Sam Kean In classrooms and academic journals, archaeologists have ...

Researchers in Poland have made quite the unique discovery, they have found the remains of the first embalmed pregnant ancient Egyptian mummy, who’s now known as the “Mysterious Lady”. The ...