Researchers have examined a mummy from a small Austrian village and found a mix of unusual materials has been used to ...

Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara.

Past studies resolved little and revealed new questions about the monk’s life and death. An X-ray analysis in 2000 identified ...

Evan Halleck says pursuing this project is “the most creatively alive” he’s felt since moving to L.A. 12 years ago to start ...

Researchers discovered that a 1746 Austrian mummy was embalmed with wood chips and zinc chloride, preserving internal tissues ...

Research suggests cat sacrifices in Egypt may have helped shape the tameness of today’s house cats, reshaping the history of ...

This week, uncover the secrets of an 18th century mummy, meet an ancestor of unusual modern mammals, see the sun like never ...

She looks at their mummies in the Turin museum to discover more. Marriage and family in Ancient Egypt. videoMarriage and family in Ancient Egypt Dr Joann Fletcher visits the village of Demi to try ...

The museum would one day be known as the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). His Egyptian keepsakes were, in fact, mummies. But Cox—a lawyer, journalist and author who served ...

There are mummies by design and mummies by accident. The best-known mummies, human and animal, are probably those that underwent elaborate embalming and burial procedures in ancient Egypt.