Scientists who examined a pregnant mummy explained why they think no others had been found. It might have to do with a chemical reaction that dissolves the bones of unborn children. It makes them ...

Archaeologists have discovered the first known example of a pregnant mummy. The ancient remains are said date to the first century B.C. and were discovered in Thebes back in 1826—but experts had long ...

Archeologists have made some surprising discoveries based on these human remains.A. Leydo/Warsaw Mummy Project, Mirosław Blicharski, HS2, Johan Reinhard Archaeology is always trying to understand more ...

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Scientists have made a rare discovery inside a rare discovery. Researchers with the Warsaw Mummy Project have been studying ancient Egyptian remains since 2015 and recently used cutting-edge computer ...

Scientists have uncovered the first known example of a pregnant woman being mummified. The mummy was first thought to be a male priest because of an inscription on the sarcophagus. "We were really ...

Polish researchers examining an ancient Egyptian mummy that they expected to be a male priest were surprised when X-rays and computer tests revealed instead it was a mummy of a woman who had been ...

Forensic scientists reveal the face of the world's first pregnant ancient Egyptian mummy. The Warsaw Mummy Project is composed of a group of archaeologists from the University of Warsaw and was ...