A mummy buried in Southern Egypt more than 5,000 years ago has revealed its grisly secrets, shedding new light on prehistoric embalming practices. Researchers from the Universities of York, Oxford and ...

The ancient Egyptians were prolific record keepers. For thousands of years, they jotted down everything from legal documents to literature on papyrus rolls and tablets of wood and stone. But there’s ...

SAQQARA, Egypt — In the shadow of Egypt’s oldest pyramids, the Saqqara Step Pyramids, Egyptian and German archaeologists have uncovered an embalming factory that sheds new light on how ancient ...

Based on a manual recently discovered in a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus, University of Copenhagen Egyptologist Sofie Schiødt has been able to help reconstruct the embalming process used to prepare ...

Beyond the pyramids and sphinxes, ancient Egypt is perhaps best known for its mummies. Schoolchildren around the world learn the story of ancient pharaohs—their organs scooped out and their bodies ...

Based on a manual recently discovered in a 3,500-year-old medical papyrus, an Egyptologist has been able to reconstruct the embalming process used to prepare ancient Egyptians for the afterlife. It is ...