Dr Joann Fletcher explains how the ancient Egyptians preserved their dead and why mummies were buried in precious jewellery.

Some millennia ago, Yes might have been the object of worship in ancient Egypt. Today, Yes – a modern, domestic house cat – is helping shed light on the practice of mummification and the lives of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient Egyptians certainly knew how to preserve a human body. Sadly, few guides exist explaining the mummification process ...

In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ancient past, a team of researchers led by Barbara Huber of the MPI of Geoanthropology has recreated one of the scents used in the ...

Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery is made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in the Sado Valley in Portugal, dating to 8,000 years ...

Researchers have discovered a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian manual detailing the techniques used to embalm a mummy’s face. Ancient Egyptians certainly knew how to preserve a human body. Sadly, few ...