The Siberian Ice Maiden, a well-preserved mummy unearthed on the steppes of eastern Russia in 1993, was a spectacular discovery. She was dressed in glorious finery—fine-woven wool skirt ...

It’s no secret that mummies are often associated with Ancient Egypt, one of the world’s oldest civilizations. But they have actually been discovered all around the world, including ancient ...

When two hikers set out to explore a relatively unknown side of Europe they returned with much more than they bargained for.

A mummy, to put it bluntly, is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin, but sometimes organs ...

This chilling documentary tells the story of a 4000-year-old mummy that was found frozen in the ice, high in the Alps in 1991 and the number of people who have died around it ...