They're older than King Tut, Ötzi the Iceman, and even the ones found in the Atacama Desert. Across southeastern Asia, researchers have identified dozens of mummies that are between 4,000 and 11,00 ...

Scientists made a shocking discovery after they revealed that they had unearthed two mummified corpses that, according to the scientists, were almost 7,000 years old and had no traces of modern human ...

Now, an international team of archaeologists has traced that practice back more than 14,000 years, making it the world’s oldest known tradition of deliberate mummification. Published this week in ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

X-ray scans conducted on a 2,000-year-old mummy have revealed that the ancient Egyptian lived with an aching lower back, not unlike many modern humans. Radiologists subjected two mummies dated to ...

It has long been known that the Sahara Desert, today one of the driest and most inhospitable regions in the world, was quite the opposite thousands of years ago. Around 14,800 to 5,500 years ago, ...

USC radiologists unraveled some of ancient history’s mysteries recently when they conducted full-body CT scans of two Egyptian mummies whose bodies have been preserved for more than 2,200 years. Keck ...