Archaeologists have discovered a 4,300-year-old tomb belonging to a palace official ... Hawass described as possibly the "most complete mummy found in Egypt to date." "The most important tomb ...

Archaeologists say they have found a gold leaf-covered mummy sealed inside a sarcophagus that had not been opened for 4,300 years. The mummy, the remains of a man named Hekashepes, is thought to ...

An Egyptian mummy, over 3,000 years old, may have died from the bubonic plague, providing the first genetic evidence of the disease outside the Eurasian continent, new research shows. The finding ...

Most notably, as IFL Science reports, a 5,000-year-old skeleton in Russia had clearly perished from one of the most fatal diseases in history. And so did the Egyptian mummy researchers recently ...