It all started with a report of two mummies in a university closet. Carol Anne Barsody, a graduate student in archaeology at Cornell University, was looking for a case study for her research. She ...

Upon entering the cool, dark lair of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, visitors are greeted by an engraved tomb, a mummified figure and small bronze fish. The objects are part of the museum’s ...

Ibis mummy and figure of Imhotep, Egypt. The tombs which hold the Ibis run to many, many chambers - the numbers of birds found and still to be excavated has been estimated to run into many millions.