CT scans of an ancient Egyptian mummy (pictured, with the coffin it was inside when purchased by a collector in the 1850s) reveal that under its linen wrappings, the body is encased in a shell of mud.

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The rescue of an ancient Egyptian mummy's sarcophagus this month from alleged smugglers in New York — the first time authorities say an international artifacts' smuggling ring was dismantled ...

‘Mummy’: The Wrap on Ancient Egypt’s Embalmed Remains. A term that now conjures horror-movie kitsch derives from the Arabic for ‘asphalt,’ an oil product used to preserve the dead. By .

A 3,600-year-old mummy called Fred at Italy's Turin Museum had been ... on the body or applied onto bandages before wrapping, ... had been followed by the Egyptians thousands of years ...

Plant extracts in the wrapping of this mummy at the Egyptian Museum in Turin show that it is the oldest-known embalmed body. For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians carefully mummified ...

Why Was This Egyptian Mummy Encased in Mud? Researchers have never previously observed the unusual, low-cost embalming method. ... CT images of the mummy offered clues to the wrapping process.

The mummy of Amenhotep I, who ruled from about 1525 to 1504 BCE, had been X-rayed in 1932 but had not been unwrapped due to its "perfect wrapping" and decorations of flower garlands and "exquisite ...

Two pieces of a mummy wrapping, once contiguous and later dispersed to opposite sides of the world, have been reconnected digitally. Together, they reveal scenes and spells from an ancient ...

In ancient Egypt, mummies were embalmed and then wrapped in fabric bandages. Then, they were covered with cartonnage, a paper-mache material made from recycled papyri and sometimes fabric, Gibson ...

The ancient Egyptians prepared mummies in ways more complex than previously believed, using such embalming materials as plant oils, tree resin and beeswax, researchers say. Richard Evershed and ...