The tooth of an ancient mummy from a civilisation that preceded the Inca Empire has opened up a new way of thinking ...

“We are still working on the mummy," said Professor Agata Kubala in a statement, as an "X-ray revealed the presence of an object on the chest, which may be a papyrus containing the boy’s name.” ...

The intricate mysteries of ancient Egyptian mummification are being unraveled at Semmelweis University in Hungary, where researchers have employed a state-of-the-art photon-counting CT scanner to ...

The discovery comes as part of an ongoing study using CT scans to order to analyze the remains of six different mummies, the ...

It might have been mummy’s favorite bedtime story. Archaeologists found part of Homer’s “The Iliad” stuffed inside a 1,600-year-old mummy’s abdomen — a surprising and first-of-its-kind find, experts ...

In a discovery that feels almost like something out of a movie, archaeologists working in Egypt have uncovered fragments of a famous ancient text hidden inside a Roman-era mummy. But this isn’t just ...

Researchers discovered an Iliad fragment in a mummy, marking the first literary papyrus used in embalming and offering new ...

The discovery is a major first for ancient Egyptian scientists.

Archaeologists have found a papyrus copy of Homer’s Iliad in the gut of an ancient Egyptian mummy, the first time ever that a ...