There have been a handful of ancient Egyptian mummies discovered with their mouths wide open, as if mid-scream. This has puzzled archaeologists because Egyptian mummification typically involved ...

In 1935, a Metropolitan Museum of New York archeological expedition working near Luxor in Egypt came across a mysterious mummy. They were excavating the tomb of Senmut, the female Pharaoh Hatchepsut’s ...

For nearly a century, the “Screaming Woman” mummy found in Luxor, Egypt, haunted viewers with her open-mouth facial expression. Now, new evidence by researchers in Egypt suggest more harrowing details ...

Correction: This story has been updated to clarify the body was estimated to have been buried about 3,500 years ago. More than two millennia ago, an unnamed woman died under unknown circumstances.