Archaeologists in Egypt have reportedly made an extraordinary discovery. In the sands of Luxor, a hidden chamber was recently opened to reveal 22 coffins that had remained undisturbed for thousands of ...

Thomas Pettigrew, a nineteenth-century surgeon and antiquarian, threw parties in London at which he unwrapped ancient Egyptian mummies for his guests’ titillation. Modern scanning technologies mean ...

The mummy, believed to date back to the Ptolemaic period (around 332–30 BCE), was not newly excavated, but rather rediscovered through modern science. It has been housed at the Archdiocesan Museum in ...