An intriguing discovery in Egypt revealed an ancient mummy with a papyrus fragment of Homer's Iliad resting on its abdomen.

Discover the incredible find at Egypt's Saqqara tombs—a 4,300-year-old mummy covered in gold leaf, buried deep in a sealed sarcophagus. This remarkable discovery sheds light on ancient burial customs ...

The standard image of an ancient Egyptian mummy often features a very specific type of person and pose. A royal figure is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities/Facebook) Here's something archaeologists don't see every day, or indeed ever: An ...

Archaeologists have found something unexpected inside a 1,600-year-old Roman-era Egyptian mummy: a fragment of Homer's Iliad. It wasn't placed beside the body, but inside the mummy's abdomen. But the ...

Scientists have made a rare discovery inside a rare discovery. Researchers with the Warsaw Mummy Project have been studying ancient Egyptian remains since 2015 and recently used cutting-edge computer ...

An Egyptian archaeological mission has uncovered three tombs from different periods of ancient Egyptian history at the Sheikh ...

A tomb in Egypt’s Theban Necropolis reveals a surprisingly organized story of burial, reuse, and changing beliefs spanning ...