Ancient texts state that a complete mummy treatment required 70 days. Embalmers removed the brain through the nostril by using a hook. What material was used to wrap mummies? Ancient texts state ...

A new examination of prehistoric Egyptian textiles suggests mummy making started in the region 1,500 years earlier than previously believed. Shown here is flax yarn from a burial wrapping ...

A team from Northwestern University used powerful X-rays for the first time in the scientific community to see through the wrapping ... the mummy, and we wanted to find out which materials were ...

A small snippet of the mummy's wrapping tested for carbon dating suggested the child had lived between 30 B.C. and 130 A.D., in Egypt's Roman period around the time of Mark Antony and Cleopatra.

While visiting the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, look for the Bashiri mummy in the main mummification hall. The distinctive pyramid-patterned face wrap makes it instantly recognizable among the ...

To make the mummy seem even more life-like, sunken areas of the body were filled out with linen and other materials and false eyes were added. Next the wrapping began. Each mummy needed hundreds of ...

“We always knew that not all animal mummies contained what we expected them to contain, but we found around a third don’t contain any animal material ... have an animal mummy,” said Dr ...

Trying to think if I’ve ever seen a mummy movie in which the mummy shoots wrapping from his fingers ala Spider-Man. Don’t think I’ve seen that one before so points to Rage of the Mummy for ...

Two pieces of a mummy wrapping, once contiguous and later dispersed to opposite sides of the world, have been reconnected digitally. Together, they reveal scenes and spells from an ancient ...

Radiologists at The Palm Beach Children’s Hospital at St. Mary’s Medical Center proposed Thursday that a ruptured appendix killed their oldest patient, a mummy that is part of a display at the ...