No archaeologist dares to open a 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy, fearing the loss of a one-of-a-kind burial method.

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of at least five woolly mammoths at a site in Austria. The remains suggest that ...

Learn more about the mysterious Bashiri Mummy and how it remained untouched for all these years.

The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright ...

The parliamentary group for Afrikan Reparations branded displays of human remains 'unethical' and said mummies had been ...

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Published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society ... scents of nine ancient Egyptian mummies. The findings shed light on the materials and methods used in mummification, how these evolved ...

The luncheon was canceled on January 13, but luckily, we still got a class picture at the cocktail party and dinners held at the Academy Museum on February 25. It was an Academy luncheon in spirit.

The Guanche mummy went on display at Madrid’s National Archaeological Museum (MAN) in 2015. It is the preserved remains of a 35-40-year-old person who it is believed lived between the 12th and ...