Mummy: Did you mean...?

Howard Carter's 1922 CE discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun was world-wide news but, following fast upon it, the story of the mummy's curse (also known as The Curse of the Pharaoh) became even more popular and continues to be in the present...

Mummy portrait of Lady Aline, from Hawara, Egypt, c. 24 CE. Neues Museum, Berlin. The Tomb of Aline is an ancient Egyptian grave from the time of Roman emperor Tiberius (r. 14-37 CE), excavated at Hawara in 1892. The portrait is painted...

Mummy portrait from the Tomb of Aline, Hawara. Early Roman Period of Egypt, c. 24 CE. Neues Museum, Berlin. The Tomb of Aline was unearthed in 1892 by the German archaeologist Richard von Kaufmann. A hewn stele carved with a Greek inscription...

The mummy of Armenirdis, late XXII-XXV Dynasty (800-664 BCE), Thebes. (The Vatican Museums, Rome).

Mummy portrait of a girl, wax encaustic painting on sycamore wood, Roman Egypt, 120-150 CE. Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main.

Mummy portrait of a woman painted in encaustic, a wax-based medium, on wood, from a tomb at Rubaiyat, Fayum, Egypt, about 300-325 CE. The British Museum, London.

Mummy portrait of a woman, known as "L'Européenne" painted on wooden board (encaustic wax paintings), from Antinoopolis (Antinoe), Egypt, 120-130 CE. Louvre Museum, Paris.

Mummy portrait of a woman wearing a gold necklace, a Medusa pendant, and golden ear-pendants with pearls, Roman Egypt, 161-192 CE. Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria.

Mummy skulls from the Nazca sacred burial site Cahuachi, southern Peru. The site was in use between 100 BCE and 550 CE.

Mummy of a child, wrapped in a shroud depicting a boy wearing a tunic, mantle, and slippers, and holding a spring of myrtle. A wreath of rosebuds is worn on the head. The child was around the age of 7 to 10 years at the time of death. From...