Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for animals — have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt. The workshops date back around 2,300 years and were in use between the late ...

Cat Mummy (Third Intermediate Period to Late Period, 780–390 BCE) and ibis mummy from the ibis cemetery at Abydos (Early Roman Period, 30 BCE–early 1st century CE) in ‘Soulful Creatures: Animal ...

Animal mummification in ancient Egypt was a carefully organized practice that connected spiritual beliefs with economic activity. This wasn’t a rare or occasional ritual but a large, sustained ...

Researchers have used neutron tomography, a non-invasive imaging technique, to study six sealed animal coffins from ancient Egypt. The study was published in Scientific Reports. As previously reported ...

Archaeologists have made a significant discovery in Egypt, uncovering two massive workshops that were used for mummifying both human and animal corpses in ancient times, reported first by CNN. The ...

Japanese ambassador Oka Hiroshi visits a newly discovered tomb at the Saqqara archaeological site — Khaled DESOUKI Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed two human and animal embalming workshops, as ...

SAQQARA, Egypt — Ancient workshops and tombs dating back 4,000 years were unveiled by antiquities authorities Saturday, at a sprawling pharaonic necropolis outside Cairo, Egypt's capital. Clay pots ...