The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that mimicked these diagnoses, researchers have concluded, settling a four-year ...

No archaeologist dares to open a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy, fearing the loss of a one-of-a-kind burial method.

WARSAW, POLAND—Live Science reports that an international team of researchers has finally resolved the mystery surrounding a controversial Egyptian mummified person. The body of the individual ...

The set crew came upon a mummy, painted in Day-Glo red and hanging from a wall by a noose. Set decorator Chris Haynes thought it looked “awful real,” he later recalled in a BBC2 documentary.

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.