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A re-examination of the last meal of an Early Iron Age Denmark bog body called Tollund Man has revealed new details about his final hours. According to findings published Wednesday...

Scholars excited by depiction of actual objects on the body of a 3,000-year-old woman. A mummy from ancient Egypt was heavily tattooed with sacred symbols, which may have served to...

The sequencing of a 10,600-year-old genome has settled a lengthy legal dispute over who should own the oldest mummy in North America — and given scientists a rare insight into...

A mummy found at a site off the coast of Scotland consists of remains from at least three individuals. Human skeletons dating from 1400–1100 BC were previously unearthed at the...

The unique carapace was probably designed to support the deceased person’s bid for immortality. Ancient people repaired a damaged mummy by encasing it in a head-to-toe mud shell — a...

Scientists have identified the oldest known manual on mummification. Scientists have found an ancient Egyptian instruction manual for embalming the faces of the dead. The manual was found within a...

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a mummy in one of two previously unexplored tombs across the Nile from the southern city of Luxor, the antiquities ministry said Saturday. The tombs were found in...

EGYPT archaeologists uncovered a «scary» mummy believed to be almost 4,000 years old while excavating a burial chamber — and the remains left bone experts baffled. The discovery was made...

A MYSTERIOUS three-fingered “alien mummy” discovered in Peru could actually be a new species of human, a researcher has claimed. New DNA and carbon dating tests on one of several...

Experts in the U.K. have found the world’s oldest figurative tattoos on two ancient Egyptian mummies, one of which is the oldest tattooed female ever discovered. The mummies, which date...