The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

The Austrian mummy was found remarkably preserved thanks to a rare embalming method involving wood chips, fabric, and zinc ...

Scientists have studied an enigmatic mummy from the crypt of an Austrian church and revealed an unusual embalming method and ...

This approach to embalming differs from better-known methods used in ancient Egypt in which opening the ... were also detected in the mummy. The team concluded that the mummified body was that of ...

Young Egyptian actress May Elghety is making a strong splash into the world of international cinema, having been selected to star in the upcoming supernatural horror ...

The young Sissi wed Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria at the age of 16, a marriage that thrust her into formal Habsburg court life, for which she was unprepared and found unpleasant. Eccentric and ...

Uncovering mummies is a sure way to prompt Ancient Egyptian curses that might be true, which explains why the Bashiri mummy has remained undisturbed for more than two millennia. This mysterious ...

Another watershed moment happened in 1903, when Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary vetoed a papal candidate, Martens said. Once Pope Pius X was elected, he banned the veto in 1904 ...

The last known attempt at external interference in a papal conclave occurred in 1903 when Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria sought to prevent the election of Cardinal Mariano Rampolla. However ...

Egyptian actresses May El-Ghety and May Calamawy joined the cast of the new US-produced supernatural horror film The Mummy, which will be released in the US in April 2026. Irish director Lee ...