Mummies

An astonishingly lifelike facial reconstruction reveals the face of an enigmatic mummy who may have been the biological father of the renowned pharaoh Tutankhamen.

Here's how the idea of a "mummy's curse" got started.

South American mummies were likely brutally murdered 1,000 years ago, and the evidence is still preserved today, a new study finds.

Ancient Egyptians seem to have been "cat people," or at least cat mummy people.

Archaeologists have unearthed a trove of artifacts at the necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo.

Historians found that a Book of the Dead segment from New Zealand matched another in Los Angeles.

An ancient papier-mâché statue of a meditating Buddha contained the body of an 11th-century monk.