The German pharmaceutical advertised, "Genuine Egyptian mummy as long as the supply lasts, 17 marks 50 per kilogram." Rich old Europeans didn't actually eat up all the mummies.

Some British museums are rebranding ancient Egyptian "mummies," instead calling them "mummified people" to emphasize that they once lived.

Inside, they found what Hawass said was the oldest non-royal mummy ever discovered in Egypt. It was also the oldest mummy wrapped in gold leaf ever found in the country, he added.

We have natural mummies from pre-dynastic Egypt, so we’ll refer to them as natural mummies because they haven’t been artificially mummified,” he added.

Putting their mummy where their mouth is. A baker’s dozen of mummies with golden tongues and fingernails have been discovered in 2,000-year-old tombs in middle Egypt. Archaeologists discovered ...

The “Golden boy,” mummy was found in 1916 at a cemetery in Nag el-Hassay in southern Egypt that was used between approximately 332 and 30 BCE.

Archeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest mummy ever found in Egypt. The 4,300-year-old mummy was a rich, important 35-year-old man called Djed Sepsh, archaeologist Zahi Hawass, Egypt ...

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 ...

For the first time in 50 years, archaeologists have discovered Fayum mummy portraits at an ancient Egyptian site. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

The mummy is of a man named Hekashepes and “may be the oldest and most complete mummy found in Egypt to date,” Hawass added. [Related: This teen mummy was buried with dozens of gold amulets.] ...

A 12th-century translation error kicked off a 700-year trade in mummies, depopulating the tombs of Egypt to populate European apothecaries.