At the bottom of a burial shaft in Minya Governorate, Middle Egypt, a joint Egyptian-Spanish archaeological team descended into a hall with three chambers branching off it, each crowded with mummies ...

In the ancient Egyptian town of Oxyrhynchus, archaeologists just discovered two mummified bodies that were entombed with golden tongues more than 2,000 years ago. There have now been 16 such mummies ...

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The standard image of an ancient Egyptian mummy often features a very specific type of person and pose. A royal figure is interred with their arms crossed and placed inside a detailed and elaborately ...

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered 17 mummies in desert catacombs in Minya province, an “unprecedented” find for the area south of Cairo, the antiquities ministry announced Saturday.

A Roman‑era tomb in Egypt’s Minya Governorate has yielded bizarrely ordained mummies, rare papyri, and artifacts that illuminate Greco‑Roman burial practices. Archaeologists found Roman-era mummies ...

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Opening March 20, "Mummies" lets visitors peer inside remains thousands of years old—all without disturbing or unwrapping them. The oldest mummies in the world are found in Peru, dating back more than ...