The gas workers in Peru discovered a mummy dated to a thousand years old during the time of pipe installation in Lima. The ...

The bandage dress, that item of clothing invented in the mid-1980s that makes the wearer look as if she has been sucked into ...

The ancient tomb, found in Abydos, Egypt, is thought to belong to a pharaoh who ruled 3,600 years ago, during a time of ...

Researchers in Poland have made a unique discovery: the remains of the first embalmed pregnant ancient Egyptian mummy, known as the “Mysterious Lady.” Dating from the 1st century BCE, this mummy was ...

Etruscan letters form the Linen Book of Zagreb, later torn into strips to use as bandages to wrap an Egyptian mummy. Courtesy of the Archaeological Museum of Zagreb, photograph by Igor Krajcar In ...

to apply multispectral imaging to the papyrus wrapping which covered ancient Egyptian mummies, and to writing on the wooden coffin of a mummy held at Chiddingstone Castle in Kent. The papyrus covering ...

The Chinchorro mummies are considered the oldest mummies in the world. Thousands of years older than the Egyptian mummies. And these were not pharaohs. They were everyday folks looking to hold on ...

When most people hear the word "mummy," they usually think of ancient Egypt. However ... For example, Carr says the Incas wrapped mummies in bundles instead of a coffin or sarcophagus. “ ...