Advanced imaging revealed the first known mummified pregnant woman from ancient Egypt, with the fetus still inside her womb.

Scientists have made a rare discovery inside a rare discovery. Researchers with the Warsaw Mummy Project have been studying ancient Egyptian remains since 2015 and recently used cutting-edge computer ...

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 ...

Long before the famous Egyptian mummies, prehistoric communities had already developed body preservation techniques. About 10,000 years ago, in China and Southeast Asia, human groups practiced ...

The mummy belonged to a man called Hekashepes and it’s thought to be the oldest and most complete non-royal corpse ever found in Egypt. It was discovered down a 50-foot (15m) shaft at a burial site in ...

The bodies appeared to have been artificially mummified by “smoke-drying” over fire Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in ...