The Black Death, also known as the bubonic plague, spread across Europe in the 14th century, wiping out as many as 50 million ...

A team tested the ancient mummy dating back more than 3,000 years and discovered the bubonic plague in his bone tissue and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. King Francis I of France carried ground up mummy with him at all times in case of emergency. That's because mummy was widely used medicinally for thousands of years.

Samples of 'The Black Death', which wiped out 50 million people in medieval times, were found in an Egyptian mummy ...

The health status of people living in ancient times has remained under wraps—quite literally so in the case of Egyptian mummies. But thanks in part to developments in medical imaging ...

Mummies are being studied increasingly to answer questions about the health, social standing and beliefs of the population from whence they came, and the lessons that they have for modern populations.

“We know that sometimes people really wanted to be mummified but didn’t necessarily always have the best means to do so,” Drake said. “You could get a discount coffin by borrowing or using ...

In other words, mummies are people too, but visitors don't see them as such. Research looking into how museum-goers experienced a display of a mummified Egyptian woman known as Irtyru found that ...

In the late 1980's, perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote ... appear to be the ancestors of modern-day Chinese people. Archaeologists now think they may have ...

One of the biggest exhibitions of Egyptian treasures including mummified animals and people opens in Edinburgh His "voice" was then generated by an artificial larynx sound - a method commonly used ...

The mice and other animals surrounded two mummified human bodies and the burial chamber contains detailed paintings of funeral processions and people working in the fields. Experts say the tomb is ...