A 3,500-year-old Egyptian medical text is shedding new light on the ancient practice of mummification. Recently discovered inside a much larger work, the papyrus document being studied by University ...

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

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a cache of mummification materials—the largest of its kind ever unearthed—dating back 2,500 years, reported Kamal Tabikha of the National last month. The trove ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy were found dead in their Santa Fe, N.M., home on Feb. 26 Ron Galella/Ron Galella Collection via Getty When authorities went inside the two-story Santa Fe, N.M., home of ...

Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a new ...

The circumstances around the death of Betsy Arakawa, the wife of Gene Hackman, could have lent itself to mummification, ...

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 ...

Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, reportedly had a bottle of pills next to her when the couple were found dead in their Santa Fe home — but did the medication contribute to her body’s state of ...