CHICAGO (AP) - Once the lid was off the wood coffin holding the 2,500-year-old mummified remains of a 14-year-old Egyptian boy, scientist J.P. Brown could relax. The conservator at Chicago's Field ...

Chicago’s Field Museum is home to over a dozen ancient Egyptian mummies but one in particular has perplexed researchers for years. Now, the mystery of Lady Chenet-aa’s burial procedure appears to be ...

A new coffin unearthed from Egypt has some people saying, "D'oh!" Archeologists recently excavated several coffins from a recently discovered 3,500-year-old cemetery in Minya, Egypt, The Archaeologist ...

Egyptian authorities on Saturday revealed the contents of 30 ancient wooden coffins discovered in Luxor and yes, they include mummies. Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme Council of ...

Old friends, new tales : the mummies and coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science / Michele L. Koons -- A history of research and exploring new narratives : contextualizing the Denver Museum ...

X-ray scans have finally unravelled the mystery of how a famous ancient Egyptian “locked mummy” was placed inside a coffin with seemingly no entry point. Out of the over dozen Egyptian mummies housed ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a rare burial chamber where several mummies were interred with thin gold foils in ...

Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This ...

SAQQARA, Egypt — More than 2,600 years since they were buried, archaeologists in Egypt said Saturday they had found at least 59 ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of the country's capital ...

In 1915, a team of U.S. archaeologists excavating the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Deir el-Bersha blasted into a hidden tomb. Inside the cramped limestone chamber, they were greeted by a gruesome ...

BRIDGEPORT — If you’ve ever visited the P.T. Barnum Museum, you’ll likely remember the mysterious Egyptian Mummy and coffin. But if you haven’t visited the museum in a while — and it’s been closed due ...

LUXOR, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt on Saturday unveiled the details of 30 ancient wooden coffins with mummies inside discovered in the southern city of Luxor in the biggest find of its kind in more than a ...