"I'm sure I'll reveal Nefertiti's mummy in a month or two," Hawass told Spanish newspaper El Independiente in an interview. Stock images of a bust of Nefertiti i (left) and an Egyptian mummy (right).

“We knew there were objects within the mummy, and we wanted to find out which materials were present,” says lead author Stuart Stock, a cellular and molecular biologist at Northwestern ...

experts shone X-ray beams smaller than the diameter of a human hair onto the mummy to identify the objects inside the item’s wrappings, lead author Stuart Stock told CNN. “The X-rays give off ...