A recent display of mummies in Mexico serves as a reminder to the scientific explanation of the so-called “mummy’s curse.” Scientists warn that the curse is really a fungal concern. Research shows ...

You don't need to be an explorer or an adventurer or a treasure-seeker or a gunfighter to appreciate the charms of The Mummy. "I loved being part of a movie that we didn't know if it was an action, ...

KOM OMBO, Egypt — Since Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamen’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings nearly a century ago, pop culture and folklore have invoked the fabled curse of the mummy, said to plague ...

Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, who supervised the first CT scan of the mummy of the boy pharaoh Tutankhamun this week, said the experience suggested it might be unwise to write off the legendary “curse of ...

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...

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Researchers believe that a fungus thought to be found in ancient tombs may provide a valuable new tool in the fight against cancer. “Fungi gave us penicillin,” Sherry Gao, associate professor in ...

Batman might be the U.S.' immovable boxoffice object, but a mummy is the unstoppable force internationally. By Hy Hollinger, The Associated Press Batman might be the U.S.’ immovable boxoffice object, ...

The London Times started it all – calling the murders the work of an ancient Egyptian curse. I accused the tabloid of capitalizing on the superstitions of the populace. Yet, three men were dead, with ...

June 14, 2005 — -- For five years, British archaeologist Howard Carter combed the sands of the Valley of the Kings to no avail, and his financial backer, Lord Carnavon, was tired of getting no ...

Batman might be the U.S.' immovable boxoffice object, but a mummy is the unstoppable force internationally. By Hy Hollinger, The Associated Press Batman might be the U.S.’ immovable boxoffice object, ...