Art
Comparing the Afterlives of Peruvian and Egyptian Mummies
Chicago's Field Museum is touring its mummies for the first time, and their inaugural stop is the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Ancient Egypt
Art
Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Revealed from a Sunken City
Artifacts from a long-lost underwater city are going on view in Paris this September.
News
British Scientists Find Trove of Animal Mummies with No Bones
It sounds like the beginnings of a detective tale: researchers in the UK recently scanned 300 animal mummies from Egypt only to discover that a full third held no bodies.
News
One of Ancient Egypt's Most Celebrated Paintings May Be a 19th-Century Fake
According to an Italian Egyptologist, one of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo's most prized ancient paintings could be a 19th-century archeological forgery.
Art
Unwrapping the Ancient Egyptian Practice of Animal Mummification
Millions of animal mummies — some elaborately dressed, others plainly wrapped — were buried by ancient Egyptians and the exact reason for the death ritual is an ongoing archaeological mystery.
News
Tomb of Unknown Queen Discovered in Egypt
Archaeologists are one step closer to piecing together an ancient family tree after discovering the 4,500-year-old tomb of an unknown Egyptian queen named Khentakawess, AFP reported.
Art
Discovering Tutankhamun with Photographer Harry Burton
In 1922, the Egyptologist Howard Carter asked the Metropolitan Museum of Art to lend him the services of Harry Burton, a photographer then working for the Museum's Egyptian expedition.
News
Archaeologists Find Mummified Royal Children in Egypt
Archaeologists have discovered that a previously unexplored tomb in the Valley of Kings is actually a royal necropolis containing the mummified remains of at least 50 people.
News
Archaeologists Discover Ancient Pharaonic Tomb
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania have discovered the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, Sobekhotep I, the first king of the 13th Dynasty. The tomb was found in Abydos, once a sacred city of Ancient Egypt and now an important archaeological site.
Art
How an Ancient Egyptian Obelisk Ended Up in NYC
When Cleopatra's Needle was commissioned by Pharaoh Thutmose III around 1450 BCE for the Heliopolis sun temple, the island that would be Manhattan was mostly woodlands.
Opinion
The Mystery of the Spinning Ancient Egyptian Statue
A Manchester Museum doesn't know why a 10-inch tall statue of a man named Nebo-Sanu (c. 1,800 BCE), which was an offering to the Egyptian God Osiris, is spinning in its display case. One Egyptologist thinks it's a curse.
News
Dealer Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Egyptian Antiquities into US
A Brooklyn antiquities dealer Mousa Khouli, 38, pleaded guilty today to smuggling Egyptian cultural property into the United States and making a false statement to law enforcement authorities.