He is known to be history's one of most powerful rulers. His mummy was unearthed in 1881 as a well-preserved body that provided details about his physical appearance and health. Ramesses II's ...

No matter how many studies are conducted on mummies, something mindblowing continues to come to the surface. In 2021, the history of mummification added another chapter when the mummy of a ...

100-year-old folklore and pop culture have perpetuated the myth that opening a mummy's tomb leads to certain death. Movie mummies are known for two things: fabulous riches and a nasty curse that ...

A railroad car at Cassia County Museum once housed a traveling show featuring a mummy claimed to be Lincoln assassin John ...

Chances are you will recall the story of the notorious Tutankhamun curse, which was one of the press sensations of the early 1920s. On 5 April 1923, just seven weeks after Howard Carter opened the ...

Fifth graders from the Waldorf School in Saratoga Springs got to bring learning to life during a trip to a local museum.The ...

We will get to the very beginning of human history, but I'm not going to start there because I want to begin with the mummies -which is where I began when I first came through these doors into the ...

4.Our Egyptian mummy was given to us by the Sunday School Society in 1912. We know very little about him but x-rays taken during the 1960s show he was a young man in his 20s, who had suffered with ...

Mummies have been cast by popular culture and ... David Abulafia, professor emeritus of Mediterranean history at Cambridge University, called the decision "strange." Ancient Origins joked that ...

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The film will be "The Mummy" from 1932, featuring Boris Karloff and Zita Johann and HORUS Patron, Prof Joann Fletcher, will complement the film with a talk about "The History of Mummy Horror". Ian ...