Researchers have identified bacteria, fungi, and yeasts both inside the mummy and on its surface.

A “mermaid mummy” kept at a temple has been an object of worship, the stuff of nightmares and a source of mystery for ...

A mummy, known as the “Untouchable,” was discovered nearly a century ago in the Valley of the Kings region of the ancient city of Luxor. Renowned Egyptologist Howard Carter made the discovery in 1919, ...

Lee Cronin’s The Mummy scared audiences earlier this year with an intriguing Egyptian mystery. To promote it now being ...

In 1915, a team of U.S. archaeologists excavating the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Deir el-Bersha blasted into a hidden tomb. Inside the cramped limestone chamber, they were greeted by a gruesome ...

You might not think a paleontologist looking for 66-million-year-old fossils would need to ask a rancher about his great-grandmother's job in the Wyoming badlands. But that's what Paul Sereno, a ...

BRIDGEPORT — If you’ve ever visited the P.T. Barnum Museum, you’ll likely remember the mysterious Egyptian Mummy and coffin. But if you haven’t visited the museum in a while — and it’s been closed due ...

National News The Mystery of the Mummy’s Head: How the FBI Helped Crack a 4,000-Year-Old Case In 1915, a team of U.S. archaeologists excavating the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Deir el-Bersha ...