For over 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth, with an empire stretching across ...

The Field Museum also had conversations with Egyptian representatives about returning the mummies to Egypt, but those officials requested that the mummies remain on display at the Chicago museum ...

contain 23 human mummies and more than 30 animal mummies. Ancient Egyptians believed that the soul remained inside the body after death, so embalmers mummified bodies to preserve the spirit for ...

A burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been unearthed. Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/Facebook A burial chamber containing the remains of an ancient ...

The artifacts discovered inside a tomb of 11 Egyptian burials from the height of the country’s Middle Kingdom offer a fresh perspective on the funerary practices from the 12 th and 13 th ...

Researcher analyses composite scan of mummy (Chicago Field Museum) “The Ancient Egyptian view of the afterlife is similar to our ideas about retirement savings. It’s something you prepare for ...

X-ray scans have finally unravelled the mystery of how a famous ancient Egyptian “locked mummy” was placed inside a coffin with seemingly no entry point. Out of the over dozen Egyptian mummies ...