Without a doubt, the ancient Egyptians are the experts in body preservation and mummification. However, they were not the ...

There's about three or four ankylosaurs that are preserved in a way that you could say are mummies,” Dr Susannah Maidment told IFLScience.

The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright ...

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

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

POLICE have uncovered a creepy well-preserved mummy hidden in an alleged smuggler's house after a shock raid. The mummy is thought to be that of a Christian person from the Middle Ages.

After discovering a trove of mummified crocodiles in Egypt, researchers noticed something unexpected—these reptiles had an ...

When found, in September 1991, Ötzi’s skin, hair, and clothing were still in a remarkably preserved state ... researchers soon realised that the mummy belonged to a much earlier period.

Mummified flesh, preserved for centuries ... European scholars mistakenly conflated mūmiyā with Egyptian mummies, assuming that the embalmed dead were imbued with similar restorative properties.