Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K. digitally removed face masks from ancient Colombian mummies ...

The human remains predate Chile's Chinchorro mummies and the famously preserved pharaohs of ancient Egypt by millennia ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Researchers have analyzed the exceptionally well-preserved remains of a young adult male who died about 1,000 years ago in Mexico. He died in his early adulthood (21-35), and his remains were ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- Ancient mummies of Egypt's royal pharaohs will emerge from their resting places this weekend and parade through the streets of Cairo in search of a new home. What sounds like the plot ...

The world’s oldest human mummies were preserved using smoke drying techniques 10,000 years ago, new research has found. A study of dozens of corpses found across 11 burial sites in Southeast Asia and ...

But the practice of artificially preserving bodies shows up in archaeological records around the world. Now, a new study ...

Tightly packed human remains in odd positions were likely smoked and mummified in ancient southeast Asia. Hung, et al (2025) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences As the spooky season ...

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 ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- Ancient mummies of Egypt's royal pharaohs will emerge from their resting places this weekend and parade through the streets of Cairo in search of a new home. What sounds like the plot ...