A mummy found in Mexico shows signs of a possible living mold. Officials warn that exposure could pose a risk to visitors and ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

Scientists have reconstructed the most complete and lifelike profile of Edmontosaurus annectens thanks to an extraordinary ...

His reign was legendary, but his afterlife was an epic all its own. Looted by tomb robbers, moved by priests to hide from thieves, and even given a modern passport by the Egyptian government—the body ...

Archaeologists have discovered 225 shabtis — figurines meant to work for the deceased in the afterlife — in a pharaoh's tomb.

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, who starred in the late 1990s-2000s iteration of "The Mummy," may reprise their roles in a ...

Another season of "Ghosts," another frightfully funny Halloween episode — only this time, the ghost of a mummy comes back from the dead to raise all sorts of Halloween havoc. We begin in Egypt in 1890 ...

While Egyptian kings and queens are the most famous examples of mummification, the practice wasn’t just for pharaohs. It expanded over time until everyone from the poor up were being preserved for ...

It seems like every other slot machine has an ancient Egypt theme, with pyramids, mythological characters or symbols. Ancient Egypt is a hot genre in gambling. There is something mystical and ...

While analyzing an 18th-century Austrian mummy, researchers discovered that the man died from tuberculosis and was preserved in a very unusual way: with wood chips, twigs and fabric packed into his ...