Mummification is one of the most fascinating practices from ancient history, especially in Ancient Egypt. It was a careful process used to preserve the body after death so the soul could continue its ...

A team of paleopathologists and medical experts from Germany, the U.S. and Italy has found that anemia was common in ancient Egyptian children who had been mummified. In their study, reported in the ...

Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for animals — have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt. The workshops date back around 2,300 years and were in use between the late ...

Mummies are bodies of people or animals preserved after death. The process of mummification used by ancient cultures that preserved their dead for hundreds, even thousands, of years differs from more ...

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 ...

Scientists have unearthed what they believe to be the oldest known evidence of human mummification in Southeast Asia. The findings, estimated to be around 12,000 years old, set a new record for the ...

In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ancient past, a team of researchers led by Barbara Huber of the MPI of Geoanthropology has recreated one of the scents used in the ...

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 ...

Ancient Egypt. Gods and goddesses. A video exploring some of the many gods and goddesses of Ancient Egyptian civilisation and ...

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 ...