mummy

A wrapped mummy of novel quality and exceptional appearance, whose burial rites were preserved from ages ago, has now been unwrapped—not by hand but virtually, using cutting-edge CT scans and 3D ...

A team of researchers in Warsaw, Poland, carrying out an examination on an ancient Egyptian mummy, initially believed ...

Scientists examined a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue from China, and it contained a mummified monk who apparently died during ...

Egypt has unveiled the 2,500-year-old mummy of a high priest at an ancient cemetery south of Cairo. Egyptologist ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 2,500-year-old Egyptian mummy on live television. “This is Discovery at its best–transporting fans into ...

Another great reason not to eat raw seafood. A 375-year-old mummy found in South Korea had a parasitic ...

Officials in Pennsylvania said they recently X-rayed a nearly 2,000-year-old mummy discovered in Peru that was locked in ...

Archaeologists say they have found an ancient mummy in Mongolia from 1,500 years ago in the Altai Mountains. ...

For decades, researchers have been trying to figure out who these mummified knees belonged to. And now, they ...

A 2,500-year-old mummified crocodile specimen held by the National Museum of Antiquities in the Netherlands has recently been ...

An interdisciplinary team led by the University of Melbourne in Australia has reconstructed the face of an ancient ...

Archaeologists say they have found an ancient mummy in Mongolia from 1,500 years ago in the Altai Mountains. ...

New evidence supports controversial claims made by Egypt's tourism minister.

The so-called mummy of a 15-year-old Incan girl sacrificed 500 years ago has a few secrets. The teenager suffered ...

Scientists found the unthinkable a few months ago when they examined a 1,000-year-old Buddha statue from China: it ...

A mummy uncovered at the ancient site of Cusco in Peru has surprised scientists with what was contained ...

What connection did the child have to this prominent bishop?

A BBC documentary shows scientists revealing that most of the 800 ancient Egyptian animal mummies they scanned do ...

A Buddha statue dating back to the 11th or 12th century was examined by CT scan and endoscopy ...

A mummy estimated from preliminary investigations to be about 200 years old, sitting in the lotus meditation position, ...

It was not too long ago that mummies were used in unconventional ways—as drugs, as entertainment, and perhaps ...

Preserved in the hot dry desert of Egypt may be one of the largest grave sites ever discovered.

Strange occurrences have been said to eddy around an ancient Egyptian artifact, known as the "Unlucky Mummy," since ...

"He looks almost Byzantine or Greek, gazing doe-eyed over the viewer’s left shoulder, his mouth forming a slight ...

Tattoos have played a role in the lives of prehistoric and modern man alike. Societal status, art, religion, ...

Mummies of humans and other animals have been found on every continent. Here we feature ten unique mummy ...

Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt at the end of the 18th century sparked a European interest in ancient Egypt. ...