, stated there was" severe postmortem decomposition with partial mummification.” The report noted there

guards, the people who take care of the mummification operation itself....

mummification process—all partook in this enterprise." The excavation team delved deeper into the burial

This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding.... This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding.... It was, the narrator explained," preserved human flesh dating to the Bronze Age".Dr Büster said:" It's not something we expect when we're excavating a site that's 3, 000 years old....

Egypt has, over the years, offered some of the most prized and promising archaeological treasures.... Excavations in the North African country began in the mid 1880s, as William Matthew Flinders Petrie, the English Egyptologist often referred to as the" father of Egyptian archaeology", began his work.... Archaeologists and researchers have since flocked to the country, digging and analysing every square inch of areas believed to hold secrets about the past.It might be hard to believe that in o

CAIRO( REUTERS)-Scientists said on Wednesday( Aug 25) they had discovered the 43 million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown amphibious four-legged whale species in Egypt that helps trace the transition of whales from land to sea. The newly discovered whale belongs to the Protocetidae, a group of extinct whales that falls in the middle of that transition, the Egyptian-led team of researchers said in a statement. Its fossil was unearthed from middle Eocene rocks in the Fayum Depression in Egy

For the first time in more than three millennia, humanity has gazed upon the mortal remains of one well-preserved royal mummy. That of Amenhotep I was discovered in a burial site near the Egyptian city of Luxor more than a century ago.... The mummy wore a beaded golden girdle and had 30 amulets in their linen wrappings, some made of gold. The arms of Amenhotep I were likely folded, unlike the mummies of kings who preceded him.... Their arms were stretched out alongside their bodies.“ Amenhotep

( XINHUA, AFP) PARIS-Mosques, mummies and a mining landscape.... These are just some of the latest additions to the prestigious list of world heritage sites administered by Unesco, the United Nations' cultural agency. The 44th session of the World Heritage Committee, chaired from Fuzhou, China, considered nominations from last year and this year when it met online last week, and inscribed over a dozen cultural sites.... Archaeological sites in India and Japan were among the places recognised b

A leading university has slapped trigger warnings on “ insults ” and swear words-for students studying the English language. The guidance from the University of York’s language and linguistic science department lists a series of “ content warnings ” that are added to courses. One alerts language students to “ verbal abuse, spoken and written threats, and so forth ”.... At the University of the Highlands, a tag was added to Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea for “ graphic fishing s

Archaeologists recovered Tutanhkamun’s infamous tomb nearly 100 years ago in 1922 when Howard Carter conducted excavations in the Valley of the Kings.... He didn’t unseal it until he could gather a group of witnesses, who watched inside on February 17, 1923, at 2pm.... The event itself and investigations following have often prompted more questions than answers, but some firm explanations are fleshing out the pharaoh’s legend. Accounts of Mr Carter’s excavation and events following have given