The "mummy's curse" first enjoyed worldwide acclaim ... "They tend to threaten desecrators with divine retribution by the council of the gods," Ikram said. "Or a death by crocodiles, or lions ...

No archaeologist dares to open a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy, fearing the loss of a one-of-a-kind burial method.

Osiris was the god of the underworld and the afterlife. He has a pharaoh’s beard and his legs are wrapped in mummy bandages. Sekhmet was a warrior goddess and a goddess of healing. People ...

The bodice covering the mummy's body contains scenes of the deceased lying on a bed surrounded by the deities Isis and Nephthys. Also present at his side are the four sons of the god Horus ...