but scans have revealed that a 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy may not be all it seems. The scan suggests that the mummy, which was thought to be a female, is in fact the remains of a castrated man.

The two well-preserved mummies from Egypt's Gebelein site – a male and a female — have been in the British Museum's collection for more than 100 years. But thanks to new technology ...

Women explorers played a major part in the UK's fascination with Egyptian mummies a century ago, and girls who - much later - visited their collections in provincial museums are among today's up ...

Their work informed a now-live interactive exhibit of the male and female mummy in Dresden. The teenager's mummy is on display at the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, Cairo, Egypt. The study was ...

announced that the mummy of an elderly female from tomb KV60 in the Valley of the Kings was surely Hatshepsut, female pharaoh of Egypt in the 15th century B.C. The identity of Hatshepsut is ...

(Sicily’s macabre mummies offer lessons about life ... Photograph by Kenneth Garrett Queen Hatshepsut was one of Egypt’s few female pharaohs. During her 22-year reign she masterminded ...

Warren figured examining the Egyptian mummy—a gift from a ... Museum in Baltimore lies a partially unwrapped female called the Goucher mummy, with her arms crossed on her chest.

STORY: You might think that a mummified corpse would have a fairly unpleasant stink.But according to scientists researching ...

The mummy’s cause of death remains unknown ... Senmut was an architect during the reign of ancient Egypt’s most powerful female leader, Queen Hatshepsut. Senmut’s final years also remain ...

In 1911's "The Mummy," a female mummy comes to life after exposure to an electrical current. The Egyptian princess is infatuated with the male protagonist and aggressively pursues him, reinforcing ...