Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Betsy Arakawa and Gene Hackman. (Ullstein Bild/Getty Images) Details continue to emerge regarding the deaths of actor Gene Hackman ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 3,500-year-old Egyptian medical text is shedding new light on the ancient practice of mummification. Recently discovered inside a much larger work, the papyrus document being studied by University ...