Excavations were carried out by a mission from New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Alongside the mummified animal remains, the team uncovered a large palatial ...

Egypt has announced the discovery of two of the largest workshops ever used to mummify human and animal corpses in ancient ...

Since the 1970s, when archaeologists applied computed tomography (CT) to mummies for the first time, researchers have harnessed the technique to take a closer look at these ancient animal mummies — ...

The mummification of animals was a widespread practice in ancient Egypt — and creatures including cats, crocodiles, dogs, hawks, ibis and snakes have been found as mummies. Egyptologists believe ...

Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt. The exhibit's catalogue is available at gilesltd.com ...

At the necropolis of Saqqara, Egyptologists discovered a draft document ... on the traveling exhibit Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt, go to brooklynmuseum.org.

CT scans of ancient child mummies revealed they suffered from an illness that gave them enlarged skulls, according to a new study. Photos from the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology Scans ...

An international team of archaeologists recently uncovered a complex of ancient tombs and chapels ... dates to the time of Pharaoh Ramses II, was discovered in Sakkara, about 20 miles south ...

The largest touring collection of mummified remains and related artifacts ever assembled has arrived at the Phillip and ...

The footprints were discovered in the Schöningen Paleolithic site in the Harz Mountains. Ancient animal prints, including the first evidence of elephants in the region, were also found at the site.