A Missouri family says that when they went to a funeral home to pick up their loved one's ashes, they were given an urn along with a cardboard box containing something they did not expect: the man's ...

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 ...

A mummy known as the "Screaming Woman" may have died in agony 3,500 years ago, suggests new research. The Egyptian woman was embalmed with expensive imported ingredients - suggesting her expression ...