The claim: The British Museum has banned the use of the word 'mummy' A Jan. 23 Facebook post post (direct link, archived link) claims the British Museum has implemented a new rule about the way it ...

The Gilded Lady mummy, intact since Roman-era Egypt (30 BCE–395 CE). The interior of the mummy was finally revealed in 2011 with CT scanning. (© 2015 The Field Museum, photo by John Weinstein) (click ...

The arm of a mummy in a Mexico museum became detached when it was moved for a renovation project using improper protocols, officials accused. National Institute of Anthropology and History ...

THE British Museum has been criticised for warning visitors that a tour on life and death in ancient Egypt features mummies.

The Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology returned five Greenlandic Inuit mummies to Denmark last week, five years after their repatriation was first requested by Danish authorities. The ...

FILE - Mummies are displayed in the Mummy Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008. In Mexico, the federal archaeology agency accused the conservative government of Guanajuato state on ...

Running 600km along the coast of the Atacama desert, from southern Peru to northern Chile, is a mass-burial site for the ...

“I don’t know if you’ve seen that mummy,” former President Bill Clinton once tastelessly joked about a 500-year-old mummified Peruvian girl nicknamed Juanita. “But you know, if I were a single man, I ...

The Museum of Idaho (MOI) has introduced its next exhibit as “Mummies of the World: The Exhibition,” slated to open May 31 with a ribbon cutting. The exhibit will be a part of the special traveling ...