The 3,900-year-old tomb of priestess Idy is revealing new insights into women’s roles in Egypt’s Middle Kingdom.

According to Fresno County Coroner David M. Hadden, Burrus died of asphyxia caused by the compression of his chest. Burrus’ ...

Khaled said that historic floods had ruined the majority of the tombs' wooden coffins and linen wrappingsCredit ... of ...

In an email to Popular Science, Field Museum senior conservator JP Brown likened the mummy and its cartonnage coffin to a model ... information about her at her time of death.

From the woman who slept next to her dead  dog for a month, to animal lovers who want their coffins opened so their pet's ...

A 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy’s wish that he would one day speak to ... and suffered from afflictions including gum disease ...

Green burials, where the person is buried in a wicker basket without embalming, can reduce one's ecological footprint after death.

When buried in the cemetery two years ago, Jake Miller was placed directly into the ground with no casket and no preservatives ... “I spend a lot of my time outside, and I’m comfortable ...

X-ray scans have finally unravelled the mystery of how a famous ancient Egyptian “locked mummy ” was placed inside a coffin ...

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

To stride behind the rope line, escorted at every footfall by the finest sentinels of the U.S. Army’s renowned Old Guard, is ...

Colleagues flanked the coffin as the truck navigated the streets of Spanish ... Kaydion said she was saddened to know that ...