From ancient power plants to alien spacecraft, the pyramids have inspired countless wild theories. Join us as we explore the ...

Cairo, Egypt (CNN)-- Just imagine ... University study focused on non-royal mummies, and left out the people who lived the good life. "If you were a pharaoh," he told me, "you would get lots ...

The methods of embalming, or treating the dead body, that the ancient Egyptians ... mummies are from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Dynasties of the New Kingdom (ca. 1570–1075 BCE) and include ...

Related stories "Particularly with the earlier, still quite well-preserved royal mummies, they actually left the brain in place in situ, so you didn't have to remove them," he said. Egyptians at ...

The University of Manchester is hosting a day school to discuss the scientific study of ancient Egyptian mummies, which will include the question, was the great Pharaoh Ramesses II a true redhead?

A huge tomb belonging to one of ancient Egypt's earliest pharaohs has been discovered by archaeologists. However, the identity of the king is unknown as there was no mummy left inside the 3600 ...

The stuff of dreams for any archaeologist, Piers Litherland and his team, working on a British-Egyptian excavation, might ...

Jamie Theakston and Marcelle Duprey attempt to solve the mystery of why scarab beetles were buried with mummies ... life in the times of the Ancient Egyptians. The colourful wall paintings ...

It is a mask for a rich ancient Egyptian. This mask was put on top of a mummy's bandages to protect the head. This is a blue glazed shabti figure of a pharaoh called Sety I. A shabti is a little ...