A scan revealed that an Egyptian crocodile mummy preserves a fish caught on a bronze hook after more than 2,000 years.

New forensic analysis of a mummified man discovered in Chile’s Atacama Desert has revealed that the individual seemingly died ...

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Mummies found so far date back 66 million years, a time when predatory giants were roaming Wyoming's Badlands.

High in Egypt’s Nile Delta lie the ruins of Bubastis, the ancient city devoted to Bastet, once described by classical writers as a powerful center of female worship and devotion. This full documentary ...

In a recent study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Dr. Bernardo Arriaza argues that the practice of artificial mummification among the Chinchorro people may have evolved as a ...

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The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practised by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and beyond as far back as 12,000 years ago, my colleagues and I report in new ...

The intact nature of the skeletons suggested there was no attempt to cremate the bodies. Some ancient societies in China and southeast Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively ...