Two 7,000-year-old mummies, naturally preserved and buried in the Libyan Sahara, were discovered at the Takarkori rock ...
The mummies of the world exhibit is wrapping up this weekend after an exhilarating run at the Museum of Idaho.
It’s only fitting that TV Theme Night on “The Masked Singer” include an iconic cast reunion onstage. And, it happened right under our noses. During Wednesday’s episode, The Mummies were the first to ...
The Chinchorro began mummifying their dead well before the Egyptians immortalized the practice. However, the Chinchorro ...
The bodies appeared to have been artificially mummified by “smoke-drying” over fire Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in ...
LONDON — At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies ...
JP Brown, associate conservator at the Field Museum in Chicago, preparing the Egyptian mummy known as the “Gilded Lady” for display at the American Museum of Natural History (© AMNH / D. Finnin) A ...
Scientists have discovered what’s thought to be the oldest known mummies in the world in southeastern Asia, dating back up to 12,000 years. Mummification prevents decay by preserving dead bodies. The ...
Cairo, Egypt held a parade on Saturday celebrating the transport of 22 of its prized royal mummies to their new resting place in a massive new museum further south in the capital. The ceremony, ...
(LiveScience) Mummies found off the coast of Scotland are Frankenstein-like composites of several corpses, researchers say. This mixing of remains was perhaps designed to combine different ancestries ...
Mummies were used for shocking purposes throughout history that would sound quite bizarre today. The ways these ancient mummies were preserved in Egypt left a rich legacy of mummified remains, over ...
The Chinchorro people of the Pacific coast turned the raw pain of loss into something enduring and visible, reshaping the ...