STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink.But according to scientists researching what ancient Egyptian mummies smell like, you'd be wrong.They emit woody, ...

International newspapers several years ago reported the discovery of Queen Nefertiti's mummy, citing an English researcher ...

Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced this week it had successfully recovered a rare trove of smuggled ...

Egypt has received 25 ancient artifacts from the US after a three-year legal and diplomatic effort involving U.S. authorities ...

But what is the Eye of Horus and what did it mean to the ancient Egyptians? According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

It is believed that while deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, French philologist and orientalist Jean-Francois Champollion ...

But Horus ultimately won the fight, became ruler of Egypt and ... often included in the mummy wrappings." The ancient Egyptian civilization lasted more than 3,000 years, and practices surrounding ...

The items spanned centuries and included a range of styles from different eras of ancient Egyptian ... States. Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities A portrait of a mummy from Faiyum ...

Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses I sat longer at Emory University than he did on the throne. His presumptive remains now lay encased in glass at Egypt’s Luxor Museum, a simple cloth draped from his ...

Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. Justice Sonia Sotomayor interrupted U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer during argument over birthright ...