While visiting the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, look for the Bashiri mummy in the main mummification hall. The distinctive pyramid-patterned face wrap makes it instantly recognizable among the ...

The technique used to wrap this ancient corpse ... arrangement of bandages over the mummy's face is said to resemble the architectural design of the Egyptian pyramids, which may indicate the ...

The balm would have formed a "sort of a sticky brown paste" which was either smeared on the body or applied onto bandages before wrapping ... mummy found in what was thought to be an empty ...

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Dr. Sahar Saleem is a radiologist at Cairo University and part of the Egyptian Mummy Project ... There were 30 amulets in between the wrapping and also inside.

The wrapping of the fabrics has created ... The cloth roles and drawings on the mummy's face resemble the architectural design of Egyptian pyramids, which may indicate the degree of respect ...

Etruscan letters form the Linen Book of Zagreb, later torn into strips to use as bandages to wrap an Egyptian mummy. Courtesy of the Archaeological Museum of Zagreb, photograph by Igor Krajcar In ...

wrap the torso of a mummy for shipping to their school at the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Conn. Egyptian mummy Pa-Ib (believed to be about 4,000 years old), a prized exhibit of the flamboyant ...

Credit: KriveArt/Getty Images The ancient Egyptians were not the first culture to mummify their dead, but they practically perfected the practice by wrapping and preserving millions of people and ...

According to a recent CNN report, a number of British museums are seeking to avoid the use of the word “mummy” in descriptions of human remains from ancient Egypt. Museum officials are instead ...

The true face of an ancient Egyptian mummy who died screaming in agony can ... desiccating the body with a mixture of salts, and then wrapping it in cloth soaked in a balm of plant extracts ...

The ancient Egyptians were not the first culture to mummify their dead, but they practically perfected the practice by wrapping and preserving ... always left inside a mummy.