Tagged: mummies

A new book published today explains how the famous mummy Takabuti was likely to have been murdered over 2,600 years ago. Editors Professor Rosalie David from the University of Manchester and Professor Eileen Murphy Queen’s University Belfast, say a military ax was probably used from...

Egypt held a gala parade on Saturday celebrating the transport of 22 of its prized royal mummies from central Cairo to their new resting place in a massive new museum further south in the capital. The ceremony, designed to showcase the country’s rich heritage, snaked...

A team of scientists has sequenced the complete genome of an ancient strain of the Hepatitis B virus (HBV), shedding new light on a pervasive, complex and deadly pathogen that today kills nearly one million people every year. While little is known about its evolutionary...

A legal battle over a 10,600 year old ancient skeleton—called the ‘Spirit Cave Mummy’ – has ended after advanced DNA sequencing found it was related to a Native American tribe. The revelation has been published in Science today as part of a wide ranging international...

Egypt’s former antiquities minister and noted archaeologist Zahi Hawass on Sunday revealed details of an ancient funerary temple in a vast necropolis south of Cairo. Hawass told reporters at the Saqqara necropolis that archaeologists unearthed the temple of Queen Neit, wife of King Teti, the...

SHEFFIELD, England – British TV viewers will see taxi driver Alan Billis become the first person in 3,000 years to be mummified like an Egyptian pharaoh on a show next week. The 61 year old volunteered for the process after learning he had terminal lung...

Experts in Australia have found the tattered remains of an ancient priestess in a 2,500-year-old Egyptian coffin that was long thought to be empty. Reuters reports that the coffin, which was acquired by the University of Sydney 150 years ago, was erroneously classified. Late last...

Mummies are useful for lots of things: Halloween costumes, Scooby-Doo episodes, ancient Egyptian crafts, and you can get a lot of mileage out of mummy puns, if you’re into that sort of thing. But an international team of researchers has just discovered they’re also good...

I was watching a movie the other night and the main character found a mummy in his backyard. Does this really happen? Could someone find a mummy in his backyard? A mummy is simply a human being whose soft tissue has been preserved long after...

LONDON (AP) — Researchers have identified a syphilis-ravaged mummified body found in a Basel churchyard as a wealthy 18th-century Swiss woman who is an ancestor of British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. The body of an apparently wealthy woman was found decades ago during renovations on...