X-ray scans have finally unravelled the mystery of how a famous ancient Egyptian “locked mummy” was placed inside a coffin with seemingly no entry point. Out of the over dozen Egyptian mummies ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered the remains of a mummy in a 2,500-year-old coffin that was previously classified as empty. The sarcophagus had been left untouched at a university museum in ...

In depictions of the deity that appear on the inside of coffin lids, Wegner said, Nut's body typically "stretches out over that of the mummy (like the canopy of the sky) … She sort of covers and ...

This decorative Inner Mummy Coffin is more than 2,800 years old and is one of two in the care of Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. The coffin originally held the body of Iyhat - a middle ...

Nesyamun is very important as the only Mummy to have been dated to this period, as well as explaining Egyptian culture. His coffin gives an insight into his daily life and his beliefs and ...