When the Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Center's Semmelweis Museum of Medical History in Budapest was founded in ...

The intricate mysteries of ancient Egyptian mummification are being unraveled at Semmelweis University in Hungary, where researchers have employed a state-of-the-art photon-counting CT scanner to ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have uncovered a mysterious tomb in Egypt filled with golden mummies. But not only were their heads painted ...

The discovery was made in the Al Bahnasa area, 190 kilometers from Cairo. “It reflects the richness and diversity of Egyptian ...

Discovery of ancient remains challenges existing evolutionary theories.

Archaeologists have found a copy of Homer’s Iliad stuffed inside an ancient Egyptian mummy buried in a 1,600-year-old tomb.

LONDON — At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies ...

Archaeologists found a rare Iliad papyrus inside a Roman-era mummy in Egypt, highlighting the spread of Greek culture.

Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

Do mummies belong in museums? The instinctive answer may be “yes,” but that answer might change when you consider what a mummy actually is. A mummy, simply put, is a body that’s unusually well ...