CAIRO, Egypt -- Ancient mummies of Egypt's royal pharaohs will emerge from their resting places this weekend and parade through the streets of Cairo in search of a new home. What sounds like the plot ...

CAIRO (Reuters) -A grand parade conveyed 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies in special capsules across the capital Cairo on Saturday to a new museum home where they can be displayed in greater ...

It was a parade 3,000 years in the making. On Saturday, Cairo's roads temporarily closed for a procession of mummies that paraded through the streets as 22 royal mummies and 17 royal sarcophagi were ...

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CAIRO, Egypt - An excavation team of Egyptian archaeologists have recently made several discoveries — including a 4,000-year-old burial plot and the most intact mummy ever found. Zahi Hawass, the ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a rare burial chamber where several mummies were interred with thin gold foils in place of their tongues, a startling detail that fuses ritual, status, and ...

Ancient mummies of Egypt's royal pharaohs will emerge from their resting places this weekend and parade through the streets of Cairo in search of a new home. What sounds like the plot of a movie is in ...

Newly excavated Egyptian tombs dating back roughly 4,000 years are yielding a cache of rare relics that is reshaping how I ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

MINYA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt has unearthed an ancient burial site replete with at least 17 mummies, most fully intact, the latest in a string of discoveries that the country's antiquities minister ...