Akhenaten and Nefertiti remain two of ancient Egypt’s most famous and controversial rulers, yet neither mummy has been ...

By analyzing bone size, development, and shape, scientists hope to determine whether it belonged to a child or an adult, as ...

The mummy, believed to date back to the Ptolemaic period (around 332–30 BCE), was not newly excavated, but rather rediscovered through modern science. It has been housed at the Archdiocesan Museum in ...

A 2,000-year-old female mummy from Siberia’s Pazyryk culture has yielded the clearest picture yet of ancient tattooing ...

For centuries, the tattoos lay hidden beneath ageing skin, too faint to be clearly seen. Archaeologists had studied the mummy ...