~ Hatshepsut ruled for 20 years in the 15th century B.C., dressing like a man and wearing a fake beard. CAIRO, Egypt -- The long-overlooked mummy of an obese woman, who likely suffered from diabetes ...

For nearly a century, the “Screaming Woman” mummy found in Luxor, Egypt, haunted viewers with her open-mouth facial expression. Now, new evidence by researchers in Egypt suggest more harrowing details ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- Months after Egypt boldly announced that archaeologists had identified a mummy as the most powerful queen of her time, scientists in a museum basement are still analyzing DNA from the ...

In 1935, the Metropolitan Museum of New York led an archaeological expedition to Egypt. In Deir Elbahari near Luxor, the site of ancient Thebes, they excavated the tomb of Senmut, the architect and ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the 21st and 22nd Egyptian dynasties, priests oversaw the relocation of a trove of dynastic remains to the Deir el-Bahari ...

Photographs of the front and right profile of the head of the "Screaming Woman" mummy were taken in 1939 at the Kasr Al Ainy Faculty of Medicine in Cairo. (Saleem and El-Merghani) For nearly a century ...