Researchers examined four frozen mummies recovered from the Ampato and Sara Sara volcanoes in southern Peru during the 1990s ...

Scientists made a shocking discovery after they revealed that they had unearthed two mummified corpses that, according to the ...

Scientists Unearth 7,000-Year-Old Mummies With DNA that Doesn’t Match Known Human Lineages ...

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According to the researchers who have worked with them, not all that bad. They’ve used descriptors like woody, spicy, and ...

Using advanced CT imaging, the team has discovered new details about the mummies’ health, lifestyles and humanity.

THE grizzly final moments of a famous group of child “ice mummies” has been revealed. Experts have been puzzled for decades about the untimely deaths of Inca children that were ...

LONDON — At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies ...

Do mummies belong in museums? The instinctive answer may be “yes,” but that answer might change when you consider what a mummy actually is. A mummy, simply put, is a body that’s unusually well ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This image provided by the University of Chicago shows a mummy of a duck-billed dinosaur resting on its ribcage. (Tyler Keillor, ...