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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The discovery included 52 mummies dating back to the Ptolemaic era, the structure of a large tomb where 300 mummies had been ...

Usually transmitted by fleas hitching a ride on rodents, the bubonic plague attacks the lymphatic system, and initially results in flu-like symptoms a few days after infection. From there, things ...

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.

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 ...

The oldest confirmed case of the plague outside of Eurasia has been detected in an ancient Egyptian mummy. Dating back to around 3,290 years ago, the embalmed remains belong to a male individual ...

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 ...