Egypt: 3,000-year old female mummy found preserved in latest Pyramid discoveries

Egypt authorities have discovered a 3,000 Egyptian woman perfectly preserved in a tomb near the Valley of the Kings. The body was still intact having been mummified as far back as the 17th dynasty. The time period dates back to the 13th Century BC – the same era as Pharaoh Tutankhamen. It is the latest […]

Vintage ‘The Mummy’ Poster Could Become the Most Valuable Movie Poster in the World

The Mummy and Dracula have been waging a decades-long battle, but not in Universal’s Dark Universe. The two classic monster films have been hashing it out over the title for most expensive movie poster in the world, and The Mummy may be coming back from the dead to reclaim that title. The rare 1932 lithographic poster for the 1932 […]

Mummy of paraplegic child shows how Peru’s Nasca culture treated disability

The Nasca Boy’s remains are now on display in the National Museum of Ica, Peru. (credit: Tilley et al. 2018) Most Peruvian mummies come bundled in cloth, with their legs folded up to their chests and their arms around their knees. But the young boy we now know only as the Nasca Boy was buried […]

A syphilis-ridden mummy in Switzerland is a distant ancestor of Boris Johnson

Reuters/SRF A well-preserved mummy in Basel, Switzerland, has long been a mystery. New analysis has found her identity: Anna Catharina Bischoff, an 18th-century clergyman’s wife, and distant ancestor of UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson. She’s his great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother. Her body is so well-preserved because of mercury used to treat her syphilis. A mummy whose corpse […]

Scanning technique reads hidden writing in mummy boxes

Historians can use scanning to peek inside mummies without risking damage, but that hasn’t been true for the papyrus boxes those mummies were placed in before entering the tomb. If you’ve wanted to read the discarded everyday writing on that papyrus, you’ve typically had to destroy the boxes. That won’t be necessary from now on, […]

Tom Cruise speaks out on ‘POWERFUL’ Sofia Boutella in The Mummy making-of clip (EXCLUSIVE)

Boutella, 35, has had a stellar year, havng starred not only in the fantasy epic but also in spy caper Atomic Blonde. She was also an integral part of the first Kingsman film back in 2014. “You look at how enormously talented Sofia is,” Cruise said matter-of-factly. “Very powerful – not only physically but emotionally.” […]

‘The Mummy’ Gets a 16-Bit Video Game Tie-In and It Looks Better Than the Movie

There was a time when video game tie-ins for major blockbusters were a foregone conclusion. Sadly, after too many video game companies and movie studios phoned in poor video game adaptations of movies, they’ve gone by the wayside and are mostly a thing of the past. But now a new video game tie-in has come […]

‘The Mummy’ Deleted Scene: Tom Cruise is Stayin’ Alive

It’s the movie extra you’ve all been looking forward to: a deleted scene from The Mummy! Just kidding, I know none of you have been looking forward to it. With the coming release of Universal’s failed attempt to launch it’s shared Dark Universe on Blu-ray and DVD, fans of the Tom Cruise vehicle can get a sneak peek at a deleted scene […]

The Lessons Universal (and Hollywood) Should Learn From ‘The Mummy’

Remember The Mummy? It hit theaters…*checks notes*…two weeks ago? Wow, time sure flies when you’re trying to forget you saw a certain movie. The Mummy was sold as a film featuring Tom Cruise doing battle with a recently resurrected mummy, but mostly it sat there, lifeless and entirely void of any entertainment value, all thanks to […]