The parliamentary group for Afrikan Reparations branded displays of human remains 'unethical' and said mummies had been ...
President John Dramani Mahama has reiterated the Government’s commitment to ensuring that the Bank of Ghana (BoG) operates free from political interference, guided solely by its mandate.
And because this tomb was flooded shortly after Thutmose II's burial, his mummy and the majority of his grave goods were removed by ancient officials and placed elsewhere — but their ultimate ...
Among them are the Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr. Johnson Pandit Kwesi Asiama, who will serve as chairman, and the 1st Deputy Governor, Dr. Zakari Mumuni. Additionally, the president has ...
The remains have been dated to between 343 BCE and 1 BCE during the Iron Age period. The woman stood approximately 5ft 6in tall, with her body being well-preserved in the bog. Whilst much of the body ...
This discovery marks the one of the few times that ancient female remains have been found in a bog. Typically, bog mummies from the Iron Age are male. However, this isn’t the only intriguing facet of ...
Ancient human remains discovered in peatland in County Londonderry in 2023 are now thought to be those of a young woman who ...
Genetic testing has ended a 20-year debate between a Native American tribe and the U.S. government over the origins of the world’s oldest natural mummy, which has now finally been laid to rest. The ...
Using a combination of high-tech tools like an electronic ‘nose’ and trained human sniffers, they studied nine mummies on display and in storage at Cairo's Egyptian Museum. The results ...
The earliest Egyptian mummies discovered by archaeologists date to around 3500 B.C., well before the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. Mummification was a sacred funeral rite for the ancient ...