Mummy
Mummy CT scan reveal ancient Egyptian might've suffered from osteoperosis
The discovery comes as part of an ongoing study using CT scans to order to analyze the remains of six different mummies, the oldest of which dates back approximately 2,300 year.
CT scans reveal age, authenticity of child mummy housed in Polish museum for over a century - study
Fragment of Homer's Iliad discovered inside Roman-era mummy during Egypt excavations
CT scans unlock secrets of mummified Inca children ritually sacrificed over 500 years ago - study
CT scans unveil mysteries of 18th-century Austrian priest mummy
They discovered a previously unknown embalming method involving filling the body cavities with materials.
Ancient DNA reveals lost human tribe that lived in Green Sahara
DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green Sahara as a migration corridor.
New study refutes claims of pregnancy and cancer in 'Mystery Lady' mummy
Lesions in skull likely due to poor brain extraction during mummification, not cancer.
Before King Tut: ‘The Untouchable’ Bashiri mummy baffles Egyptologists
Damaging the wrappings would destroy the only known evidence of this particular embalming technique.
Nile rats and Black Death: Mummy reveals bubonic plague in Egypt 3,290 years ago
Researchers have uncovered the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia in an ancient Egyptian mummy.
Lady Chenet-aa’s mummy reveals its secrets to team of researchers
Lady Chenet-aa died in her late thirties to early forties.
Peruvian 'alien mummies' confirmed to be inhuman
Researchers confirm Mexican alien mummies are not human, but refrain from declaring them extraterrestrial. Are they wary of potential consequences?
Pennsylvania mummy 'Stoneman Willie' to receive proper burial after 128 years
In 1895, a Pennsylvania mortician accidentally mummified an unidentified alcoholic from the local jail. More than a century later, Reading, PA's 'friend Willie' is finally being laid to rest.
Archaeologists unearth 1,000-year-old mummy in Peru residential neighborhood
Mummies and ancient offerings have already been found in the Huaca Pucllana site, and experts see the site as a Pandora's Box with much more to be found.
Care to smell a mummy? This Denmark museum will let you
The scent of the afterlife unbottled in new study of ancient Egyptian mummification balms
