But the practice of artificially preserving bodies shows up in archaeological records around the world. Now, a new study ...

Last week, Richmond's newest baseball team was named the Flying Mummies, but what is the story behind the Richmond's two ...

The mummy now known as the Zimapán man was found to have a diverse microbiome that reveals more about what one ancient ...

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier than their Egyptian counterparts, new research has found.

Researchers consider the discovered remains to be mummies because they were deliberately mummified through smoke-drying, even ...

Susan Mann, 15, disappeared on May 17, 1980, per the Nassau County Police Department — and her death is considered a homicide ...

The constant temperature and low humidity of a cave network in Saudi Arabia turned cheetahs, some of which died thousands of ...

For more than a century, archaeologists have searched for the legendary Queen Nefertiti, Egypt’s most mysterious ruler. Now, ...

The mummy portraits are stunning. Their production began around 30-40 ce, sixty or so years after the defeat of ...

What comes to mind when you think of the Sahara Desert? Today, the Sahara is a harsh environment where survival can be ...

A body that was discovered in a dumpster 40 years ago and deemed "mummy girl" by local outlets was identified, reopening the decades-old cold case.

Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K. digitally removed face masks from ancient Colombian mummies ...