From Edgar Allan Poe to Scooby Doo, culture is cursed with the ancient Egyptian dead. Jonathan Jones visits the British Museum’s mummy store to unwrap our fascination
Inside the mummies’ embalmed bodies – courtesy of a hospital CT scanner
The British Museum’s next big exhibition reveals secrets that experts have been able only to guess at – until now
Secrets of Manchester’s mummies revealed by a trip to the hospital
Pioneering research brings new stories of Egyptian life and death to revamped Ancient Worlds gallery at city museum