Egypt has announced the discovery of two of the largest workshops ever used to mummify human and animal corpses in ancient times. Two workshops and two tombs were discovered in Saqqara, a vast ...

The discovery of an unusual set of ceramic vessels has shed new light on the mummification process in ancient Egypt, according to a new study. Around 2,500 years old, the 31 jars were discovered in an ...

An illustration of a mummification experiment shows a bound body's breakdown of soft tissue after three weeks, and after seven months. The European Journal of Archaeology Archaeologists believe ...