The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright ...

Before his discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, it's rumored that Howard Cater, the renowned Egyptologist, ...

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that ...

A new study debunks the long-held mystery that an ancient Egyptian mummy, known as the "Mysterious Lady," was pregnant or had ...

But the identity of the corpse remains unknown largely because unwrapping the mummy to learn what lies within could ...

Lansing talk on "Mummification." Then they watched him unwrap a mummy. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

Apothecaries stocked mummy powder alongside other human-derived ... argued that only fresh human remains – not ancient, embalmed flesh – had medicinal value, while others dismissed the ...

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.