How would you prepare for the afterlife? Join Asher, age 11, as he investigates the ancient Egyptian mummification process in this video. [2:36]

This video [2:44] explains how Ancient Egyptian mummification preserved the body for the afterlife by removing internal organs and moisture and by wrapping the body with linen. This animation uses the Getty's mummy Herakleides. Created...

In this video [2:51] Tim Noble and Sue Webster describe themselves as artists of circumstance. Walking through the Egyptian galleries they were inspired as to how to use the mice, shrews and toads they had collected. Curator Neal Spencer...

This man died more than five thousand years ago and was buried at the site of Gebelein, in Upper Egypt. The reconstruction of his grave illustrates the early Egyptian custom of placing the body in a contracted, foetal position, usually...