He is known to be history's one of most powerful rulers. His mummy was unearthed in 1881 as a well-preserved body that provided details about his physical appearance and health. Ramesses II's ...

No matter how many studies are conducted on mummies, something mindblowing continues to come to the surface. In 2021, the history of mummification added another chapter when the mummy of a ...

A mummy, to put it bluntly, is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin, but sometimes organs ...

100-year-old folklore and pop culture have perpetuated the myth that opening a mummy's tomb leads to certain death. Movie mummies are known for two things: fabulous riches and a nasty curse that ...

An Egyptian mummy, over 3,000 years old ... The bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, is one of history's deadliest diseases. It typically spreads through fleas that infest rodents ...

The mummies featured in the new study had been ... site in England have been a blip in British archaeological history. Now, a recent study suggests the victims were eaten. Psychedelic Traces ...

We will get to the very beginning of human history, but I'm not going to start there because I want to begin with the mummies -which is where I began when I first came through these doors into the ...

Evil Dead Rise's Lee Cronin is tackling a standalone version of The Mummy set to come out in April 2026. It’s been almost a decade since we’ve had a big mummy movie, and that was when ...

Mummies have been cast by popular culture and ... David Abulafia, professor emeritus of Mediterranean history at Cambridge University, called the decision "strange." Ancient Origins joked that ...

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The film will be "The Mummy" from 1932, featuring Boris Karloff and Zita Johann and HORUS Patron, Prof Joann Fletcher, will complement the film with a talk about "The History of Mummy Horror".