An ancient Egyptian bird mummy, long forgotten in storage and mislabeled as a hawk, is finally getting its due now that researchers have digitally peered inside its wrappings. The 1,500-year-old mummy ...

It’s the stuff of Saturday matinees at the local cinema. Think of movies like 1932’s “The Mummy”—Egyptian Deco, the Scroll of Thoth, ossified eyelids opening. Or that midcentury one-two punch of Jules ...