Sackler Gallery Amulet inlay: figure of Anubis Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Inlay of mummy figure with human head Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Figurine of ...

Basem Gehad has been directing excavations at the Ancient Philadelphia Necropolis in the Egyptian Fayoum since 2016. His team has cleaned tombs that were looted in the late 19 th and early 20 th ...

Ancient Egypt is best known for the pyramids of Giza, the giant Sphinx, and mummies. However, the early Egyptians also left behind other ancient clues that we can use to learn about their daily ...

Egyptian mummies have always been a subject of great interest, not only from researchers and scientists, but the general population as well. In ancient Egypt, mummification was a long and complex ...

"The sarcophagus was found sealed with mortar, just as the ancient Egyptians had left it 4,300 years ago," Dr. Hawass said on Facebook Thursday. "This mummy may be the oldest and most complete ...

The amount of precision and finesse in the mummy's packaging suggests that this individual was a very important figure in ancient Egyptian society. But the identity of the body remains unknown ...

Centuries after the first golden coffins were taken to Europe, ancient Egyptian mummies still vividly capture people’s imaginations. Perhaps we’re awed by the grandeur of their rituals and tradition.

But their scents can persist, and in the case of ancient Egyptian mummies, conservators describe those smells as pleasant. The ancient Egyptians took good care of their dead because it was ...

This mummy mask is coated in gold leaf. 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 ...