A MUMMIFIED baby wrapped in dirty laundry was found by a horrified employee at a dry cleaner. Cops have launched a probe into the “disturbing” incident to find out how the baby was ship… ...

A MUMMIFIED baby wrapped in dirty laundry was found by a horrified employee at a dry cleaner. Cops have launched a probe into the “disturbing” incident to find out how the baby was ship… ...

Cats, ibis birds, bulls, and even crocodiles were considered sacred and mummified as offerings to the gods they symbolised. They represented a connection between the earthly realm and the divine.

CT imaging was used to look inside a mummified ibis from ancient Egypt (300 B.C.-A.D. 30), and showed that the bird had been packed with food, such as snails, for the afterlife. ( ...

These two ibis-shaped mummies are not what they appear. One (left) contains no skeleton, and an X-ray of the other (right) reveals it actually contains snake skeletons.

This Ancient Egyptian bronze statue from the Ptolemaic era once contained a mummified cat! Join Andrew as he takes viewers to look at a peculiar item in the Dr. Gabriel Manigault Collection at the ...

The skeleton of a mummified ibis (middle) that Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire brought back from Egypt, along with a cat and a hawk. Jenny McGrath/Business Insider ...

While descending into ruins, he saw his first mummies: ancient birds stacked like wine bottles in a cellar. The skeleton of a mummified ibis (middle) that Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire brought back from ...

These animals were specifically bred to be sacrificed to their associated deity (such as crocodiles for Sobek, or ibis for Thoth), killed by priests, mummified and then sold to pilgrims visiting the ...

The cemetery was uncovered in the Al-Ghuraifa area of Tuna El-Gebel necropolis in Minya, Egypt, 136 miles (220km) south of the country's capital Cairo.