Egypt holds spectacular parade transporting 22 mummies of its most famous pharaohs to museum

Egypt held a spectacular parade to transport 22 mummies of its most famous pharaohs from central Cairo to their new resting place at a museum. The ceremony snaked along the Nile corniche from the Egyptian Museum overlooking Tahrir Square to the newly opened National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, Cairo, where Egypt’s first Islamic … Read more

Egypt holds spectacular parade transporting 22 mummies of its most famous pharaohs to museum

Egypt held a spectacular parade to transport 22 mummies of its most famous pharaohs from central Cairo to their new resting place at a museum. The ceremony snaked along the Nile corniche from the Egyptian Museum overlooking Tahrir Square to the newly opened National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, Cairo, where Egypt’s first Islamic … Read more

Yummy Mummies star Maria Di Geronimo, 34, welcomes a son

Yummy Mummies star Maria Di Geronimo, 34, welcomes a son with partner Carlos Vannini – and reveals the baby’s VERY unique name By Caleb Taylor For Daily Mail Australia Published: 05:42 GMT, 14 March 2021 | Updated: 05:42 GMT, 14 March 2021 Yummy Mummies star Maria Di Geronimo and partner Carlos Vannini have welcomed a son … Read more

Ancient Egyptian mummies unearthed 400 years ago are revealed for the first time

Secrets from within the shrouds of three ancient Egyptian mummies, first discovered in 1615, have been revealed for the first time thanks to CT scans.  A man in his twenties, a woman in her thirties and a teenage girl aged between 17 and 19 were inside the plaster-covered remains, buried with jewellery, gold coins and … Read more

Remains of 400-year old goat found in the Italian Alps will help scientists understand ‘ice mummies’

A skier came across a surprising sight in a remote area of the Italian Alps – the preserved remains of a 400-year-old goat. With only half of its body sticking out of the ice, Hermann Oberlechner said the animal’s skin ‘looked like leather, completely hairless.’   Oberlechner had hiked six hours into the mountains, so an … Read more

Tintin and the mystery of the duelling mummies

Herge’s fictional Inca has sparked a row between rival Belgian tourist attractions, each of which displays a mummy they say inspired Tintin’s creator.  The mummified corpse of Rascar Capac thrilled and terrified generations of young fans of the Tintin comic book story ‘The Seven Crystal Balls’.  The very serious Art and History Museum is in … Read more

Egyptian mummies discovered in the Taposiris Magna temple on the Nile delta

The mummies of two high-status ancient Egyptians discovered in a temple on the Nile delta may bring researchers a step closer to finding the remains of Cleopatra, the legendary Egyptian queen. The mummies, which had lain undisturbed for 2,000 years, are in a poor state of preservation because water had seeped into the tomb, according to … Read more

Lasers, X-rays and infrared are helping to discover the secrets of ancient Egyptian mummies

Modern technology is ‘shining a light’ on what daily life was like in ancient Egypt by using lasers, X-rays, and infrared to examine the bones of mummies.  A number of bone samples dating back between 2,000 and 4,000 years have been tested using the Advanced Light Source at Berkeley Labs in California.  It works by … Read more