NICHOLSON MUSEUM/UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Excavation on the contents of the coffin concluded last week Experts will try to identify the mummy, which was "badly torn apart" and ransacked by tomb ...

Archaeologists in Egypt Uncover a Well-Preserved Mummy Wearing Gold and Blue Sky God Mask Archaeologists in Egypt unearthed ...

Egyptologist Bob Brier published letters revealing new evidence of accusations against Carter regarding possible looting.

In their eagerness to see Tutankhamun himself, the anatomists who studied him forcibly removed him from his coffin as he was stuck to it with resin. The rough handling separated his limbs and head ...

100-year-old folklore and pop culture have perpetuated the myth that opening a mummy's tomb leads to certain death. Movie mummies are known for two things: fabulous riches and a nasty curse that ...

This decorative Inner Mummy Coffin is more than 2,800 years old and is one of two in the care of Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. The coffin originally held the body of Iyhat - a middle ...

It was the first pharaoh's tomb to be found that was almost intact. It contained 5,398 artefacts including two thrones, six chariots, a solid gold death mask and coffin holding his mummy.