Mummy

Near-infrared tech reveals stunning leopard tattoos on 2,300-year-old Siberian 'Ice Mummy'

'It suggests that tattoos were really something for the living with meaning during life, but that they actually did not play much of a role in the afterlife,' said Caspari.

Near-infrared tech reveals stunning leopard tattoos on 2,300-year-old Siberian 'Ice Mummy'.
 A reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman.

Mummy research unveils Ötzi the Iceman's unexpected ancestry

 University of Turin team discovers unique facial tattoos on 800-year-old South American mummy.

University of Turin team discovers unique facial tattoos on 800-year-old South American mummy

 CT scans unveil mysteries of 18th-century Austrian priest mummy.

CT scans unveil mysteries of 18th-century Austrian priest mummy


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.

 Palm trees in green oasis in desert arid landscape between Agdz and Zagora towns in Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.

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.

 New study refutes claims of pregnancy and cancer in 'Mystery Lady' mummy.

Before King Tut: ‘The Untouchable’ Bashiri mummy baffles Egyptologists

Damaging the wrappings would destroy the only known evidence of this particular embalming technique.

 Before King Tut: ‘The Untouchable’ Bashiri mummy baffles Egyptologists.

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.

Did Nile rats spread the Black Death? Infected mummy shows bubonic plague existed in Egypt 3,290 years ago. Illustration.

Lady Chenet-aa’s mummy reveals its secrets to team of researchers

Lady Chenet-aa died in her late thirties to early forties.

 A mummy.

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?

 An "alien" corpse presented to Congress in Mexico last September

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.

 The body of "Stoneman Willie", a jailed thief that died in a Pennsylvania prison in 1895 and was accidentally mummified by undertakers, lies on display at the local funeral home that has been his resting place for 128 years in Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 1, 2023

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.

An archaeologist works on a site where a 1,000-year-old mummy was unearthed, at a residential neighbourhood, in Lima, Peru September 6, 2023.

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

 Judy Siegel-Itzkovich Attachments 12:39 PM (56 minutes ago) to Jerusalem, me, Seth  Canopic jar of Senetnay, “Wet Nurse of the King” (Amenhotep II), which originally contained Senetnay’s mummified lungs.

Mummified bees from time of King Solomon found off coast of Portugal

Many such fossilized cocoons have been found, some going back 100 million years in the fossil record, yet none so far have been found with the preserved body of its occupant still inside.

 A honey bee

Archaeologists in Peru find 3,000 year-old mummy in Lima

Students from San Marcos University and researchers initially found remains of the mummy's hair and skull in a cotton bundle during excavation, before uncovering the rest of the mummy.

 The remains of a mummy, believed to be from the Manchay culture which developed in the valleys of Lima between 1,500 and 1,000 BCE, are pictured at the excavation site of a pre-Hispanic burial, in Lima, Peru June 14, 2023.