The Tampa Museum of Art is giving a glimpse of Ancient Egypt with a landmark new exhibition that brings world history directly to Tampa.

A joint Egyptian and Spanish archaeological team working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus has recovered golden tongue ...

Ancient Egypt has captivated people for centuries, inspiring countless books, documentaries, and blockbuster movies. Yet many ...

Akhenaten and Nefertiti remain two of ancient Egypt’s most famous and controversial rulers, yet neither mummy has been ...

Unknown artist, “Mesu Smelling a Lotus” (c. 1525–1504 BCE), New Kingdom, Thebes, Egypt (image via Metropolitan Museum of Art) What did ancient mummies smell like? What types of scents, perfumes, and ...

See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Post on Google LONDON — At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

Scientists found living yeast in Ötzi the Iceman's remains and used it to bake sourdough bread more than 5,300 years after his death.

Tightly packed human remains in odd positions were likely smoked and mummified in ancient southeast Asia. Hung, et al (2025) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences As the spooky season ...

In the frigid landscape of Siberia, frozen tombs held ice mummies with newly analyzed tattoos. Roman Purtov via Unsplash Nearly a century ago in the frigid Altai Mountains of southern Siberia, ...

Yeast has been growing in the guts of a frozen mummy called Oetzi the Iceman for thousands of years, scientists have ...