His Egyptian keepsakes were, in fact, mummies. But Cox—a lawyer, journalist and author who served 16 terms as a member of Congress for Ohio and, later, New York—was no pillager of pyramids.

Researchers Discover World's First Egyptian Mummy Who Was Pregnant at Time of Death: 'A Treasure' "Preliminary findings suggest that the papyrus, which is rolled, is nine meters. It was sent to ...

Mummification was practiced throughout most of early Egyptian history. The earliest mummies from prehistoric times probably were accidental. By chance, dry sand and air (since Egypt has almost no ...

Mummies—named after the bitumen tar, mum, used to coat the linen winding strips around them—have long held an almost magical fascination. The "civilized" world was titillated by Egypt's ...

The best-known mummies, human and animal, are probably those that underwent elaborate embalming and burial procedures in ancient Egypt. Indeed, for most people, the word "mummy" is pretty much ...

Soon, visitors to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo will be able ... Researchers extracted scents from inside the sarcophagi of nine mummies embalmed up to 5,000 years ago and came away with ...

The mystery of the 3,500 year old Egyptian mummy, whose face has been stuck in a 'scream' for thousands of years, has baffled scientists for almost a century. Believed to have passed away at about ...