Queen Nefertiti. Discovered in Egypt in 1912 by German archaeologists, her 3,300-year-old stucco-coated limestone bust went on display in 1924. Its unveiling stunned audiences from Cairo to London ...

Based on the new findings, the Egyptian Museum has decided to display the mummy inside its main hall under the moniker "Golden boy".

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

Egypt's former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has launched a petition to urge Germany to return the pharaonic bust of Queen ...

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. The cvirus Yersinia pestis, or the bubonic plague, is known ...

Beyoncé wore an Nefertiti-inspired costume while performing at the 2018 Coachella festival A Dutch museum says its archaeologists have been banned from carrying out excavations at a key Egyptian ...

How did the Egyptian mummy on display in the Ulster Museum die? Now, following recent state-of-the-art testing, it appears Takabuti was killed by being stabbed in the back. Not only that ...

Researchers have uncovered the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia in an ancient Egyptian mummy, suggesting that the deadly disease was present in North Africa thousands of years ...

Prof Joann Fletcher, an honorary visiting professor at the University of York where she co-founded the university Mummy ... of Egypt", "Cleopatra the Great" and "The Search for Nefertiti ...