Asru's mummified body has been on view in Manchester almost continuously for more than 200 years.

Asru's body was donated to the Manchester Natural History Society in 1825 before it was carefully unwrapped and displayed at ...

Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This ...

The mummified body of an ancient Egyptian woman has been removed from display after 200 years out of “respect for her wishes”.

This latest paper focused on a Theban tomb known as 209 in the western necropolis, dating back to the early 25th Dynasty (754 ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists toiling on two separate sites in Egypt have stumbled on a pair of remarkable finds of historic proportions — ...