Before his discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, it's rumored that Howard Cater, the renowned Egyptologist, ...

The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens ... physicians across Europe prescribed powdered mummy as a cure-all for ailments ranging from internal bleeding ...

perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote Chinese desert. They had long reddish-blond hair, European features and didn't appear to be the ancestors of modern-day ...

TASS/. Medieval and modern looters have destroyed most mass burials in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, and finding undamaged remains of mummies is great surprise for researchers, Aexei ...

viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright macabre. Among these is “mumia” — a medicinal substance derived from mummified human remains. From the 12th to the 17th century, ...