Examination of a mummy has revealed the original ancient Egyptian embalming recipe - first used to preserve bodies. A battery of forensic chemical tests carried out on a mummy that dated from ...

Over the past four years, Rageot and colleagues have gained unprecedented insights into the substances and steps involved in ...

They believed it belonged to a Kemetic Egyptian woman ... discovered that she was from the kingdom of Kush. As one of the ancient world's largest empires, it conquered Upper Egypt over 2,000 years ago ...

"My research has not only confirmed that there is, of course, no ancient Egyptian origin of the mummy's curse concept, but, more importantly, it also reveals that it didn't originate in the 1923 ...

"It gives us clues about how they [ancient Egyptians] treated such infections or abscesses during their lifetime," Albert Zink, head of the Institute for Mummy Studies in Bolzona, Italy ...

"Ushabtis were never put inside of the bodies of a mummy ... name for Egypt was Kemet. Kemet is a word which means the land of the Blacks," he said. The idea that ancient Egyptians were paler ...