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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A menagerie of mummified animals went on display south of Cairo on Saturday (November 23) including what authorities say is the ...

Ancient Egyptians created approximately 70 million animal mummies over a period of 1,500 years.Dogs alone account for an estimated 7.8 million. Ibises number over 2 million. Cats are even more ...

Excavators working at Tel Kom Aziza in Egypt’s Nile Delta have identified the deliberate burial of a wild boar, an animal whose remains are exceptionally rare in Egyptian archaeological contexts. The ...

Researchers at a UK university have “digitally unwrapped” three mummified animals from ancient Egypt using high-resolution 3D scans. The team were also able to dissect the mummies to learn how the ...

Egypt’s antiquities authorities have identified two adjacent mummification workshops at Saqqara, the largest such facilities ever recorded at the site, one built to prepare human remains and the other ...

The contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins—which were imaged using a non-invasive technique—are described in a new study published in Scientific Reports. The mummification of animals ...

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 ...