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 ...

LONDON -- Don't sweat the curse of the mummy. Those who disturbed Tutankhamun's tomb died all right, but no sooner than those who kept their distance, according to a study published in the British ...

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 ...

Nearly a century ago, Lord Carnavon, who attended the opening of King Tut’s Tomb, died shortly afterwards, in April 1923. At the time, the sensational media linked his death to supernatural causes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paranormal Activity was a scary movie, but we’re not really sure how a similar film that swaps demon problems for Mummy issues can be scary. Especially after the Stephen Sommers’s Mummy films, but The ...