Talk about an identity crisis. Doctors now say that a 2,000 year−old Egyptian mummy in the Brooklyn Museum — thought to be Lady Hor — is actually a “he.” A CT scan last week determined the mummy’s ...

A mummy unwrapping party marked the launch of a mentoring partnership between the Egyptology-Ancient West Asian Studies Department Undergraduate Group and the Egyptology department’s graduate students ...

WARNING: This article contains graphic images. Reader discretion is advised. Researchers have uncovered the reason an "unusual" 18th-century mummy was preserved so well in Austria – and it's highly ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...