Charles Rex Arbogast Chicago (WLS) -- The 2,500-year-old mummy of an Egyptian boy named Minirdis was revealed after scientists opened the 14-year old's coffin at Chicago's Field Museum on December 5, ...

Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This ...

Archeologists at Sydney University were shocked to discover that there was a mummy in a coffin that was thought to be empty for the last 150 years. They used the latest technology to find out that ...

Once the lid was off the wood coffin holding the 2,500-year-old mummified remains of a 14-year-old Egyptian boy, scientist J.P. Brown could relax. The conservator at Chicago's Field Museum and three ...

BRIDGEPORT — For more than a century, visitors have been able to get a glimpse of ancient people with the mummy and its coffin at the Barnum Museum. The coffin tells the story of a male priest named ...

A mysterious mummy’s artificial eyes—placed to help her see in the afterlife—would have shown her quite a lot over the past 2,700 years. Researchers examining the mummy at the British Museum thought ...

Conservators at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland made a surprising discovery when they cracked open the coffin of a nearly 3,000-year-old mummy for the first time in a century. Decorating ...

Since it was bought 160 years ago, University of Sydney archaeologists didn't think there was much to a particular sarcophagus in its collection. The coffin of one Mer-Neith-it-es sat in the Nicholson ...

A new coffin unearthed from Egypt has some people saying, "D'oh!" Archeologists recently excavated several coffins from a recently discovered 3,500-year-old cemetery in Minya, Egypt, The Archaeologist ...

The markings on a recently unearthed coffin are being compared to Marge Simpson from Fox’s long-running cartoon “The Simpsons.” The mummy’s resting place was discovered late last year in a ...