Archeologists in Egypt ... year-old mummy — possibly the oldest one ever found in the country — during an extraordinary dig near Cairo, officials announced Thursday. The mummy called ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian ... masses called buboes (hence the name). Bubonic plague is most often associated with the notorious epidemic in 14th-century Europe ...

Egyptian mummies were made in a similar fashion beginning around 2600 BCE. In western Greenland, eight mummies of people who died in the 15th century were discovered at a cliff site called ...

One of the oldest known cases of the 'Black Death' plague has been uncovered in the ancient DNA of a 3,290-year-old Egyptian mummy ... Death that befell 14th century Europe.

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead ... and analytical skills to design an imaginary “mummy-inclusive” mid-19th-century display of ancient Egypt ...

After this step, the body was completely dehydrated using a special salt called ... century, it is thought that there remain huge numbers of undiscovered mummies and treasures from Ancient Egypt.