SCIENTISTS have been able to peer inside a 3,000-year-old Egyptian "locked mummy" coffin, without unwrapping the ancient casing. Using 3D scans, researchers caught a rare glimpse inside ancient ...

It is a mask for a rich ancient Egyptian. This mask was put on top of a mummy's bandages to protect the head. This is a blue glazed shabti figure of a pharaoh called Sety I. A shabti is a little ...

Ancient Egyptians are thought to have had ... So it's surprising that these types of bandages have never been seen in a mummy before, he said. In this case, Zink said, the bandages were spotted ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered the remains of a mummy in a 2,500-year-old coffin ... "I've never excavated an Egyptian tomb, but this comes close." The sarcophagus was one of four sourced ...

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

Researcher analyses composite scan of mummy (Chicago Field Museum) “The Ancient Egyptian view of the afterlife is similar to our ideas about retirement savings. It’s something you prepare for ...

Chicago’s Field Museum is home to over a dozen ancient Egyptian mummies but one in particular has perplexed researchers for ... In an email to Popular Science, Field Museum senior conservator JP Brown ...

[Related: ‘Screaming woman’ may solve a 3,500-year-old mummy mystery.] “The ancient Egyptian view of the afterlife is similar to our ideas about retirement savings. It’s something you ...