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 ...

“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.” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Side by side of mummy entering CT scanner with two images of a mummy's skull scan (Credit: The Field Museum / Morgan Clark / ...

The mummy is back in its museum case and the Fleming staff is planning to build a new exhibit with the information gleaned from the scan, including CT images and the 3-D reconstruction of the girl s ...

RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia museum is using modern technology to unwrap the story behind one of the earliest surviving Egyptian mummies. The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond partnered this week ...

LUXOR, Egypt — A team of researchers briefly removed King Tut's mummy from its tomb Wednesday and laid bare his bones for a CT scan that could solve an enduring mystery: Was it murder or natural ...

Visitors tour the site in the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, where archaeologists unearthed two human and animal embalming workshops, as well as two tombs, on May 27, 2023. — KHALED DESOUKI/AFP ...

Radiocarbon analysis of some specimens places them between 401 and 259 BCE, making them more than 2,300 years old.

The latest imaging work on ancient Egyptian remains has brought unusual clarity to mummified body parts that were sealed for over two millennia. Scien.

CHAMPAIGN--Some people say they feel claustrophobic when they're getting CT-scan, but that's nothing when you've been packaged in bandages for the past 2-thousand years. The Spurlock Museum Egyptian ...

Correction: This story has been updated to clarify the body was estimated to have been buried about 3,500 years ago. More than two millennia ago, an unnamed woman died under unknown circumstances.