for the first time in 50 years, was exhibited behind a stout iron railing in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Irascible Jimmy ... “one does like to make one’s mummy just as nice as possible.” ...

And fascinated by the red, curly hair that framed a sunken ... and it was discovered that the Louisiana Art & Science Museum’s mummy couldn’t be anyone’s mother. He’s a guy.

Conservators at the Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland made a surprising discovery when they cracked open the coffin of a nearly 3,000-year-old mummy for the first time in a century.

“You don’t get the full context,” Marsha Hill, curator of Egyptian art ... Mummy painters, it seems, imported the material all the way from Northern Europe. A manufactured red pigment ...

“One does like to make one’s Mummy just as nice as possible ... when it was lent to the Museum of Modern Art, and, insured for half a million dollars, taken on a U.S.-wide tour.

Scholars argue that the mummy dates back to the Ptolemaic period, between the 2nd and early 3rd centuries BCE. The art of mummification was at its peak during this era. The mummy offers a unique ...

The rescue of an ancient Egyptian mummy's sarcophagus ... of Museums is preparing a red list for Egypt — a catalog of archaeological objects and works of art in danger of getting stolen or ...