Egyptian mummies are historically important and a popular source of interest for people even today. These mummies provide ...

When scientists pulled genetic material from a pair of naturally preserved bodies in the central Sahara, they expected to ...

The mummies of the world exhibit is wrapping up this weekend after an exhilarating run at the Museum of Idaho.

The Gilded Lady mummy, intact since Roman-era Egypt (30 BCE–395 CE). The interior of the mummy was finally revealed in 2011 with CT scanning. (© 2015 The Field Museum, photo by John Weinstein) (click ...

Scientists are using high-tech tools to help solve the mystery of how the Canary Islands came to be inhabited. This mummy once rested in a fabled Tenerife cave whose location was lost to history, ...

But Putnam Museum officials want desperately to know more about the beloved female mummy — believed to be 3,000 years old — which is a longtime part of the collection there, and another, unnamed mummy ...

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient Egyptian mummies smell like? Whether you wanted to know or not, scientists have ...

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...

The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...

An estimated 3,000-year-old mummy believed to be from the Manchay civilization was discovered by archaeologists digging at a trash dump site near Lima, the capital of Peru. Students from San Marcos ...

After fungus was found, experts say an exhibit of mummies in Mexico may pose a health risk to humans. The display has traveled to the United States in the past, and appeared in a recent tourism fair ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...