The mummified remains of a man buried close to a turquoise mine in Chile's Atacama Desert suggest he was a miner who died in ...

Mummies found so far date back 66 million years, a time when predatory giants were roaming Wyoming's Badlands.

A scan revealed that an Egyptian crocodile mummy preserves a fish caught on a bronze hook after more than 2,000 years.

LIMA, Peru -- A mummy estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old has been unearthed by archeologists in Peru, at a site near the country's capital city of Lima. Researchers from the National ...

The bodies appeared to have been artificially mummified by “smoke-drying” over fire Scientists have discovered mummies dating as far back as 12,000 years, according to a new study These mummies are ...

Archeologists have unearthed what they say may be the oldest known mummies in the world, dating back to around 12,000 years ago. According to a study published on Monday in the journal Proceedings of ...

For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming methods differ, but not all of them are studied equally well. In a first report ...

Previously, some of the oldest mummies on earth were known to be in South America and dated back to about 7,000 years ago Scientists revealed they have discovered the world’s oldest known mummies. A ...

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 ...