Ancient Egyptians believed that the soul remained ... chose to make packets for the organs and reinsert them within the mummies. Within the packets were wax statues of the sons of Horus ...

Inside were poorly-preserved mummies. It is thought the dead were given gold foil amulets shaped like tongues so that they could speak before the court of the god Osiris in the afterlife. Ancient ...

Image (from CT scan) by Salima Ikram and others, South African Mummy Project Team Peering inside the linen wrappings of an ancient Egyptian bird mummy, a CT scan has revealed a true rara avis—a ...

Inside his cooler bag was an ancient mummy. The man said that he had been sharing his room with the bandaged mummy and considered it "a kind of spiritual girlfriend". He had put the remains in the ...

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 ...

Over the past four years, Rageot and colleagues have gained unprecedented insights into the substances and steps involved in ...

This book presents the story of mummification as a practice worldwide. Mummies have been found on every continent, some deliberately preserved by use of a variety of complex techniques (as with the ...

"My research has not only confirmed that there is, of course, no ancient Egyptian origin of the mummy's curse concept, but, more importantly, it also reveals that it didn't originate in the 1923 ...

The health status of people living in ancient times has remained under wraps—quite literally so in the case of Egyptian mummies. But thanks in part to developments in medical imaging ...

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 ...