In the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus, just west of the Nile, a team led by archaeologists Esther Pons of Spain’s National Archaeological Museum and Maite Mascort of the University of Barcelona ...
Earlier, we wrote about archaeologists finding mummies with gold tongues and colored masks. Also, read about scientists discovering artifacts that significantly impact the theory of human evolution.
A study of ancient Egyptian mummies has shown that schistosomiasis and malaria hounded the pharaohs. The Nile likely dictated which diseases were most common in ancient Egypt and Nubia. Thirty-one ...
Not to put too fine a point on it, a mummy is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin, but ...
While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now ...
New archeological discoveries in Egypt have revealed incredible ancient sites, such as the Cemetery of Khuwy and a mysterious ...
This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1888 an Egyptian farmer digging in the sand near the village of Istabl Antar uncovered a mass grave. The bodies ...
Stephen Sommers' action-adventure flick The Mummy is returning to theaters this year in celebration of its 25th anniversary. The 1999 film will return to theaters for one week starting April 25.
Alex Ebkarian, COO and co-founder of Allegiance Gold, says the price of gold "shot higher and beyond [record highs] due to a confluence of economic and geopolitical issues like rising inflation, a ...
Gold is often considered a safe haven. That means it can help store value for investors during tough economic times and inflationary periods. That's why so many investors allocate at least a small ...
If you plan to diversify your portfolio in light of recent events, investing in gold stocks could be a good choice. Gold stocks not only track the movements of gold prices that tend to rise in ...