Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient Egyptians certainly knew how to preserve a human body. Sadly, few guides exist explaining the mummification process ...

Ongoing excavations at Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo, have unearthed two mummification workshops and the tombs of two significant priests. The site’s latest treasures, which Egypt’s ...

Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for animals — have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt. The workshops date back around 2,300 years and were in use between the late ...

A 2,500-year-old cache of equipment used to embalm ancient Egyptian mummies has been discovered in a cemetery at the site of Abusir in Egypt. The discovery was made by a team of Egyptian and Czech ...

Deep inside a shaft in the cemetery of Abusir, near Cairo, a team of Egyptian and Czech Egyptologists has found a significant cache of equipment used more than 2,500 years ago to embalm mummies. The ...

The Egyptians carefully removed organs such as the lungs, liver, stomach and intestines during the mummification process to prevent bacterial growth and better preserve the body. Egyptians believed in ...

This illustration provided by Nikola Nevenov in January 2023 depicts an embalming process in an underground chamber in Saqqara, Egypt. For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians mummified their dead to ...

Ancient Egyptians certainly knew how to preserve a human body. Sadly, few guides exist explaining the mummification process Ancient Egyptians used. As such, a recent discovery is more than just a cool ...