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 ...

Human remains found in tightly crouched postures at pre-Neolithic burial sites in China and Southeast Asia appear to have ...

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

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...

The discovery of suspected “alien mummies” in Peru has generated fresh excitement after a lawyer ... had used carbon dating to draw DNA evidence from the skeletal specimens and that they’d found that ...

A crew of workers accidentally discovered a mummy more than 1,000 years old while installing gas pipes in Peru's capital Lima, their employer and archaeologists said Thursday. The mummy was found last ...

The world’s oldest mummies, found in China and Southeast Asia, 10,000 years ago smoke drying corpses, new research indicates. Photo by Bill Greenblatt /UPI Sept. 16 (UPI) --Scientists discovered what ...

Mummies are most often associated with Egypt, where the oldest ones are about 4,500 years old. But researchers say they have found mummies that are much older, on the other side of the world. “We ...