and with that of ancient cat remains already analyzed in Europe. The research team will be working on Egyptian cat mummies ...

By studying the genetic information from these ancient cat remains ... the researchers are examining Egyptian cat mummies. When six complete cat skeletons from a 6,000-year-old tomb were evaluated ...

How are mummies formed? Ancient Egyptians believed in the concept of the afterlife and used a detailed process to preserve the bodies of the deceased for the afterlife. It involved the internal ...

Egyptians: the masters of mummification Ancient Egyptians are perhaps the best known mummy-makers—though initially, it was their climate, not their skill, that preserved the dead. Arid desert ...

The oldest confirmed case of the plague outside of Eurasia has been detected in the ancient Egyptian mummy. The mummy revealed that the deadly bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands ...

Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...

One of the oldest known cases of the 'Black Death' plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290-year-old Egyptian mummy. The cvirus Yersinia pestis, or the bubonic plague, is known ...

Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the ... evidence for the presence of plague in ancient Egypt,” the researchers wrote in their abstract.