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A 3,500-year-old Egyptian tomb reveals a dog named “He-of-the-Underworld,” a rare name likely linked to Anubis and beliefs ...

Researchers at a UK university have “digitally unwrapped” three mummified animals from ancient Egypt using high-resolution 3D scans. The team were also able to dissect the mummies to learn how the ...

Excavators working at Tel Kom Aziza in Egypt’s Nile Delta have identified the deliberate burial of a wild boar, an animal whose remains are exceptionally rare in Egyptian archaeological contexts. The ...

The contents of six sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins—which were imaged using a non-invasive technique—are described in a new study published in Scientific Reports. The mummification of animals ...

Cat Mummy (Third Intermediate Period to Late Period, 780–390 BCE) and ibis mummy from the ibis cemetery at Abydos (Early Roman Period, 30 BCE–early 1st century CE) in ‘Soulful Creatures: Animal ...

Egypt’s antiquities authorities have identified two adjacent mummification workshops at Saqqara, the largest such facilities ever recorded at the site, one built to prepare human remains and the other ...

Karim Hegazi spends his days at an Egyptian clinic taking care of animals long considered troublesome in the country: street dogs. Stray – or wild – dogs can be found in almost every neighborhood in ...

CAIRO — Late last month, a tiger attacked a circus worker in the northern Egyptian city of Tanta. The worker had to have his arm amputated. About two months earlier, in the central region of Fayoum, a ...