An 800-year-old mummy from Peru’s Chancay culture has turned up with something archaeologists rarely see: tattoos on the ...
Archaeologists working at Saqqara, Egypt’s sprawling ancient necropolis, pulled a 4,300-year-old mummy from a sealed ...
For decades, scientists have pored over the 5,300-year-old mummy known as Ötzi. Now, a new paper in the peer-reviewed journal ...
Scientists at the world’s only mummy research institute are combing crypts and caverns for ancient remains—and using new tools to gather fresh insight about how our ancestors once lived.
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 ...