‘Screaming Woman’ mummy from Theban tomb TT71 may have died in agony 3,500 years ago; the Egyptian woman was embalmed with costly imported ingredients
Cutmarks on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian skull could indicate an attempt at operating on excessive tissue growth or to learn more about cancer
‘Golden boy’ mummy was protected by 49 precious amulets, CT scans reveal; the study has been published in Frontiers in Medicine
‘Virtual autopsy’ identifies a 17th century mummified toddler, who – though born to a powerful family – was malnourished, hidden from the sun and sick with pneumonia
Scientific ‘detective work’ reveals South American mummies were murdered; the study was published on Frontiers in Medicine
Scientists digitally ‘unwrap’ mummy of pharaoh Amenhotep I for the first time in 3,000 years; a new study in Frontiers in Medicine
