Mummy
CT scans unveil faces of Colombian Andes mummies long sealed by death masks
The group reconstructed a child of about six or seven years old, a woman in her 60s, and two young men.
A 1,000-Year-Old Mummy Unearthed Under Busy Lima Avenue
Near-infrared tech reveals stunning leopard tattoos on 2,300-year-old Siberian 'Ice Mummy'
Mummy research unveils Ötzi the Iceman's unexpected ancestry
University of Turin team discovers unique facial tattoos on 800-year-old South American mummy
The tattoos were made with magnetite ink, an iron ore not previously found in any other South American mummy.
CT scans unveil mysteries of 18th-century Austrian priest mummy
They discovered a previously unknown embalming method involving filling the body cavities with materials.
Ancient DNA reveals lost human tribe that lived in Green Sahara
DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green Sahara as a migration corridor.
New study refutes claims of pregnancy and cancer in 'Mystery Lady' mummy
Lesions in skull likely due to poor brain extraction during mummification, not cancer.
Before King Tut: ‘The Untouchable’ Bashiri mummy baffles Egyptologists
Damaging the wrappings would destroy the only known evidence of this particular embalming technique.
Nile rats and Black Death: Mummy reveals bubonic plague in Egypt 3,290 years ago
Researchers have uncovered the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia in an ancient Egyptian mummy.
Lady Chenet-aa’s mummy reveals its secrets to team of researchers
Lady Chenet-aa died in her late thirties to early forties.
Peruvian 'alien mummies' confirmed to be inhuman
Researchers confirm Mexican alien mummies are not human, but refrain from declaring them extraterrestrial. Are they wary of potential consequences?
Pennsylvania mummy 'Stoneman Willie' to receive proper burial after 128 years
In 1895, a Pennsylvania mortician accidentally mummified an unidentified alcoholic from the local jail. More than a century later, Reading, PA's 'friend Willie' is finally being laid to rest.
Archaeologists unearth 1,000-year-old mummy in Peru residential neighborhood
Mummies and ancient offerings have already been found in the Huaca Pucllana site, and experts see the site as a Pandora's Box with much more to be found.
Care to smell a mummy? This Denmark museum will let you
The scent of the afterlife unbottled in new study of ancient Egyptian mummification balms
