Mummy

Bread dead redemption: Scientists bake sourdough with yeast grown in 5,300-year-old mummy

Sarhan also told AFP the team would consider using the yeast to brew beer, but the published study focused on more serious uses for their discovery.

|BySHIR PERETS, REUTERS
The mummy of an iceman named Oetzi, discovered on 1991 in the Italian Schnal Valley glacier, is displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Bolzano on February 28, 2011 during an official presentation of the reconstrution.
Krisztina Scheffer (MNMKK Semmelweis Museum of Medical History) and Dr. Ibolyka Dudás (OKK) holding the mummified head of an Egyptian woman, May 4, 2026.

Mummy CT scan reveal ancient Egyptian might've suffered from osteoperosis

The discovery comes as part of an ongoing study using CT scans to order to analyze the remains of six different mummies, the oldest of which dates back approximately 2,300 year.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Examination of the mummy using the Canon Aquilion Prime ST Computed Tomography at the Stefan Cardinal Wyszy´ nski Provincial Specialist Hospital in Lublin, April 23, 2026.

CT scans reveal age, authenticity of child mummy housed in Polish museum for over a century - study

“We are still working on the mummy," said Professor Agata Kubala in a statement, as an "X-ray revealed the presence of an object on the chest, which may be a papyrus containing the boy’s name.”

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Mummies discovered in a Roman-era tomb during archaeological excavations in the el-Bahnasa area in Egypt’s Minya Governorate, April 22, 2026.

Fragment of Homer's Iliad discovered inside Roman-era mummy during Egypt excavations

Several other mummies, three golden tongues, and a tongue made of copper were also discovered during excavations.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM

Egypt uncovers chamber of 17 mummies

The mummies have not yet been dated but are believed to date to Egypt's Greco-Roman period, a roughly 600-year span that followed the country's conquest by Alexander the Great.

MAY 14, 2017ByREUTERS
A number of mummies are seen inside the newly discovered burial site in Minya, Egypt May 13, 2017

Examination of 16th-century mummy bears fruit

Liver biopsy by Israeli-Korean team leads to better understanding of hepatitis B.

MAY 30, 2012ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Korean mummy 370

Mummy dearest

Retired medical researcher Daphna Manor’s new exhibition focuses on Fayum mummy portraits, lifelike paintings that were buried with the departed in ancient times.

AUGUST 4, 2011ByBARRY DAVIS
Daphna Manor compares art to scientific research.