SCIENTISTS have been able to peer inside a 3,000-year-old Egyptian "locked mummy" coffin, without unwrapping the ancient casing. Using 3D scans, researchers caught a rare glimpse inside ancient ...

Named Idy, her remains were found in a coffin within another coffin in a tomb in the city of Asyut, Egypt, just about 200 miles south of Cairo. The excavations took place between Aug. 18 and Sept.

Chicago’s Field Museum is home to over a dozen ancient Egyptian mummies but one ... senior conservator JP Brown likened the mummy and its cartonnage coffin to a model ship inside a bottle.

Egypt opens more galleries in long-awaited antiquities museum The latest analysis revealed that the mummy was stood upright and then the cartonnage coffin was softened with humidity till it became ...

For the first time, researchers were able to see inside the mummies in the Chicago Field Museum's collections. Their findings ...

X-ray scans have finally unravelled the mystery of how a famous ancient Egyptian “locked mummy” was placed inside a coffin with seemingly no entry point. Out of the over dozen Egyptian mummies ...

“You could get a discount coffin by borrowing or using someone else’s.” In the late 19th century as archaeologists uncovered mummies in Egypt’s deserts, they would unwrap them to see what ...

Chicago's Field Museum scientists have used CT scans to discover the secrets of ancient Egyptian mummification.

showcasing 123 ancient Egyptian artifacts. The exhibition is divided into four sections, featuring highlights such as three mummy coffins, two human mummies, five animal mummies, and eight mummy ...