Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for animals — have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt. The workshops date back around 2,300 years and were in use between the late ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The discovery of an unusual set of ceramic vessels has shed new light on the mummification process in ancient Egypt, according to ...

Archaeologists at Egypt’s ancient Oxyrhynchus site have discovered a 1,600-year-old Roman-era mummy containing a papyrus fragment from Homer’s Iliad, marking the first known instance of a Greek ...

A deposit of hundreds of mummification tools is likely the largest ever found in Egypt. It could shed light on Ancient Egypt's still-mysterious mummification process. The artifacts suggest a mummy ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a cache of mummification materials—the largest of its kind ever unearthed—dating back 2,500 years, reported Kamal Tabikha of the National last month. The trove ...

Mummification is one of the most fascinating practices from ancient history, especially in Ancient Egypt. It was a careful ...

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 ...

The discovery of an unusual set of ceramic vessels has shed new light on the mummification process in ancient Egypt, according to a new study. Around 2,500 years old, the 31 jars were discovered in an ...