In ancient Egyptian funerary rituals, canopic jars were used to hold human organs that were removed during the mummification ...

The Manchester Museum in northern England is asking visitors whether it should withdraw an ancient Egyptian mummy from its ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the ...

The oldest confirmed case of the illness in an ancient Egyptian mummy has shown the bubonic plague was around thousands of ...

We are speaking about everything, we are open to everything, in order to do collaboration,’ custodian of Egyptian relics says ...

Animal mummies, monumental coffins and colossal statues of pharaohs Tutankhamun and Akhenaten will be coming to a local ...

Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some ...

He was a minor king, yet Tutankhamun’s tomb might have been the most richly stocked of all in ancient Egypt. Now research is ...

HONG KONG, June 26 (Xinhua) -- The Hong Kong Palace Museum signed a cooperation agreement with the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt on Thursday in Hong Kong, under which the two parties will co ...

The pharaoh Ramesses II is one of the best known warrior rulers of ancient Egypt, famous for his military victories and great ...

Most of the KV35 mummies were removed from the tomb and taken to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but Amenhotep II’s body remained in situ. In 1901 thieves broke into the tomb.

The tomb is believed to have belonged to King Thutmose II, who ruled Egypt in the early 15th century BC. It is the first ...