Among the most fascinating mummies discovered outside of Egypt is a tattooed ice mummy found at Ukok Plateau near the border ...

These mummies are known as the Children of Llullaillaco, and they could be the best-preserved mummies in the entire world. One is the body of a teenage girl, and the other two are children ...

After discovering a trove of mummified crocodiles in Egypt, researchers noticed something unexpected—these reptiles had an ...

We have come to understand "mummy" as meaning a remarkably preserved body, a corpse that has withstood decay and putrefaction. (See Mummies of the World) By design or accident, the corpse's ...

Egyptians: the masters of mummification Ancient Egyptians are perhaps the best known mummy-makers—though initially, it was their climate, not their skill, that preserved their dead. Arid desert ...

But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually smell pretty good. “In films and books, terrible things happen to those ...