The mummies are currently part of the Derby Museum and Art Gallery and have only left once in the last 140 years, when they visited Lincoln University in the early 1990s for cleaning, stabilisation ...

The museum features one very unique item – mummies. "According to most people, it’s the mummies. They see something about the mummies, and the first thing they do is come here," Trim said.

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Just in time for Halloween, scientists at the Field Museum of Natural History are peeling back the wrappings of several Egyptian mummies—without disrupting their eternal slumber.

The lavish, multimillion-dollar spectacle saw 22 mummies - 18 kings and four queens - transported from the peach-coloured, neo-classical Egyptian Museum to their new resting place 5km (three miles ...