It takes about 17 days, 10 pounds of salt, 20 pounds of baking soda, linen, and incense to mummify a small object. It also requires natron, one of the ingredients that Salima Ikram brought with her ...

The American University in Cairo (AUC) has established the Amelia Peabody Endowed Professorship and Research Fund in ...

THE long-lost tomb of ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti may be hiding behind Tutankhamun's. That's according to famed archaeologist Dr. Salima Ikram who exclusively told The U.S. Sun where she thinks ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum opened it doors on November 1, 2025. AUC community members weighed in on what the opening means for ...

Just a few miles south of Cairo, held deep in an Egyptian catacomb that hadn't been explored in hundreds of years, there are dog mummies. And not just a few — millions of them. Salima Ikram "It's a ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum, which held its opening ceremony on Saturday, will showcase tomb paintings and other artefacts ...

An Egyptian mummy embalmed with advanced techniques is believed to be much older than first thought. The discovery implies such mummification skills were used 1,000 years earlier than formerly thought ...

Archaeologists have discovered a broken panel that depicts the only known example of spider rock art in Egypt and, it appears, the entire Old World. (Photo by Salima Ikram, North Kharga Oasis Survey, ...

NORTH HAVEN — Most things don’t last, unless they’ve been mummified. Hundreds of 2,000-year-old animal mummies, including crocodiles, cats, baby gazelles, falcons and ibises were removed from storage ...

The world's most famous mummy, Tutankhamun, was buried with his penis standing at a 90 degree angle, it has been claimed. An expert in Egyptology believes the everlasting erection was made to make ...

Archaeologists have discovered a panel containing the only known example of spider rock art in Egypt and, it appears, the entire Old World. The rock panel, now in two pieces, was found on the west ...