Scientists have revealed the possible cause of death for a legendary mummy whose face is frozen in a permanent "scream." Sahar Saleem / Frontiers Wails from The Crypt? Scientists have revealed the ...

Correction: This story has been updated to clarify the body was estimated to have been buried about 3,500 years ago. More than two millennia ago, an unnamed woman died under unknown circumstances.

The macabre facial expression has captured imaginations and stirred debate for nearly a century, and a new study adds fuel to the fire. Reading time 3 minutes A so-called “screaming mummy,” ...

(CNN) — With her mouth wide open, locked for eternity in what appears to be a scream, an ancient Egyptian woman captured the imagination of archaeologists who discovered her mummified remains in 1935 ...

In 1935, archaeologists from the Metropolitan Museum of New York unearthed the tomb of an ancient Egyptian architect known as Senmut, who had served the 18th Dynasty Queen Hatschepsut over 3,000 years ...

In 1935, the Metropolitan Museum of New York led an archaeological expedition to Egypt. In Deir Elbahari near Luxor, the site of ancient Thebes, they excavated the tomb of Senmut, the architect and ...

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