After initially probing a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus in Naples with a micro camera, archaeologists were encouraged enough by ...

LIMA, Peru -- A mummy estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old has been unearthed by archeologists in Peru, at a site near the country's capital city of Lima. Researchers from the National ...

Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This remarkable discovery sheds new light on Egypt’s buried past and its sacred ...

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 ...

The mummy, believed to be 3,200 years old, was found inside a brightly colored wooden sarcophagus near a temple dating to the reign of the 4th-millennium warrior king Thutmose III. The mummy was bound ...

Scientists have uncovered remarkable details about the gut microbiome of a man who lived in Mexico around 1,000 years ...

The mummy now known as the Zimapán man was found to have a diverse microbiome that reveals more about what one ancient ...

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 ...