“The mummy's screaming facial expression in this study could be read as a cadaveric spasm, implying that the woman died screaming from agony or pain,” hypothesized Saleem.

The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright macabre. Among these is "mumia"—a medicinal substance derived from ...

Yet that assumption of difference—otherness—made it possible for Europeans to justify their own actions, not only when it came to mummy medicine and the bodies from which it came, but also ...