In a recent study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Dr. Bernardo Arriaza argues that the practice of ...

Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery is made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in the Sado Valley in Portugal, dating to 8,000 years ...

Authorities continue to investigate the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, who were recently found in their New Mexico home. While the exact cause remains unknown, reports indicate ...

A team of researchers has recreated one of the scents used in the mummification of an important Egyptian woman more than 3500 years ago. In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ...

A mummy, to put it bluntly, is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin, but sometimes organs and ...

The earliest mummies are typically associated with the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, but as an intensive examination of a 5,600-year-old mummy confirms, the methods used for this iconic funeral ...

Call us morbid, but we consider the process of mummification endlessly fascinating. First things first: Mummification isn't exclusive to Egypt. The oldest known mummies actually hail from Chile, and ...