The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.
A new study has revealed that two 7,000-year-old mummies found in the Sahara Desert belong to a previously unknown branch of ...
Learn how advancements in CT scanner technology is helping to unwrap the lives of ancient Egyptian mummies without even ...
Each mummy was scanned in its sarcophagus, which weighs about 200 pounds. Then 3D models of the two Egyptian priests were ...
EGYPT -- Egyptian scientists have digitally unwrapped the mummified remains of the pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing tantalizing details about the life and death of the Egyptian king for the first time ...
In the central Sahara, where sand now buries ancient lakes, scientists have pulled genetic material from 7,000-year-old ...
They're older than King Tut, Ötzi the Iceman, and even the ones found in the Atacama Desert. Across southeastern Asia, researchers have identified dozens of mummies that are between 4,000 and 11,00 ...
New genetic findings from 7,000-year-old mummies in Libya are rewriting ancient history. These individuals belong to a unique North African ancestry, previously unknown to scientists. This discovery ...
Caves at Grimes Point, Nevada, near the discovery site of the Spirit Cave mummy (2010) (photo by psyberartist/Flickr) In a release, US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell stated: Returning the ...