“There was something strangely touching about her fingertips,” author Chip Brown noted in his impression of the 2,500-year-old mummy of Hatshepsut in our 2009 article on the ancient Egyptian ...

The mummies unearthed in a shantytown near Lima, Peru, are "a perfect sample ... their culture," Cock said at a news conference at the National Geographic Society, which funded his study.

Polish scientists are launching what they say will be the world's largest scientific study of Egyptian mummies ... for centuries. (See National Geographic's pictures of bog bodies.) ...

A female mummy with complex tattoos on her arms has been found in a ceremonial burial site in Peru, the National Geographic Society reported Tuesday. The mummy was accompanied by ceremonial items ...

The Jivaro-Shuar tribe of Peru and Ecuador practiced another ... once they were "sealed in" by the bat guano. (See National Geographic pictures of animal mummies.) Move over, Botox.

Pictures: Huge Peru Tomb Found—80 Bodies, Ring of Babies Encircled by infant remains, the thousand-year-old burial holds 80 bodies and, archaeologists hope, clues to a mysterious pre-Inca ...

In 2005 archaeologists working at the site of El Brujo on the north coast of Peru ... National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the U.S. who was a consultant for this project. The mummy ...

An archaeologist cleans a recently discovered tomb of an intact mummy of the Wari prehispanic ... Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, told National Geographic at the time.

Photograph by Kenneth Garrett / National Geographic Image Collection Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s mummy was packed with ... loved ones in what’s now southern Peru and northern Chile.

“It's one of the interesting ways that mummies can still speak to us from the past,” says archaeologist Johan Reinhard, a National Geographic ... innocuous trip to Peru. To Stanish, it speaks ...