A team of archeologists in Egypt have discovered the 4,000-year ... Since they were masters of embalming their dead, Ancient Egyptians also had a solid understanding of chemistry.

The Egyptian god Anubis was a protector of graves and an embalmer. KV 14 tomb of Tausert and Setnakht, Egypt. Nefertiti was the wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, and had six daughters by him.

In a recent study, my colleagues and I revealed extraordinary details about the final hours in the life of a crocodile that was mummified by the ancient Egyptian embalmers. Using a CT scanner, we were ...

Embalmers used salt to dry the bodies ... each featuring an iconographic lid with one of the four sons of the Egyptian god Horus to protect each organ. Imsety was the human-headed god who ...

Scientists thought embalming was developed to keep bodies preserved inside ... was left in the body because it was thought to be important for the afterlife. In ancient Egypt, wood for coffins was ...

The first "artificial" Egyptian mummies were made around 3000 BC. These early efforts at embalming were crude, but reflected the culture's emerging beliefs about preserving the dead to achieve ...

The first "artificial" Egyptian mummies were made around 3000 B.C. These early efforts at embalming were crude, but reflected the culture's emerging beliefs about preserving the dead to achieve ...

The discovery included 52 mummies dating back to the Ptolemaic era, the structure of a large tomb where 300 mummies had been interred side-by-side, and various amulets and scarabs that depicted the ...

This is the mummy of Hornedjitef an Egyptian priest who was buried in ... suggesting he was a mature man when he died. The embalmers have placed four packages inside his torso, probably his ...