We see an ancient and fragile child mummy whose head is resting on a pillow. The mummy is a brownish color. A large percentage of mummified children from ancient Egypt show signs of blood disorders ...

Before you go, “Aren’t all mummies wrapped in bandages, hardy, har, har,” hilarious, but let us explain. Scientists have found the oldest-known example of a bandaged wound on the mummy of a child who ...

Scans of ancient Egyptian mummified children revealed that many of them suffered from a common illness that caused physical deformities. Researchers used CT scans to peer inside 21 mummies and found ...

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Three Egyptian policemen were able to catch a 5-year-old child as he fell from a third-floor apartment balcony in the southern city of Assiut, saving the boy's life.Egypt's Interior Ministry released ...

Archeologists have discovered over 18,000 broken pieces of ceramics called "ostraca" that served as writing materials in ancient Egypt. The inscriptions on the shreds include lists of names, ...

A 2- to 3-year-old child from a Romano-Christian-period cemetery in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, shows evidence of physical child abuse, archaeologists have found. The child, who lived around 2,000 years ago ...