The excavation of two Egyptian tombs dating to the Roman period, between 29 B.C.E. and 641 C.E., just unveiled a wealth of ...
Image (from CT scan) by Salima Ikram and others, South African Mummy Project Team Peering inside the linen wrappings of an ancient Egyptian bird mummy, a CT scan has revealed a true rara avis—a ...
While ancient-Egyptian eyeliner, called kohl, would have been used for cosmetics, it wasn't its only ... "Ushabtis were never put inside of the bodies of a mummy. They were typically buried ...