Scientists who examined a pregnant mummy explained why they think no others had been found. It might have to do with a chemical reaction that dissolves the bones of unborn children. It makes them ...

Scientists uncovered the first example of a bandaged wound on a mummy from Ancient Egypt. The finding could provide clues about medical treatment at that time. Whether this bandage was added as part ...

Scientists have managed a feat they once thought impossible: peering beneath the layers of linen that once swathed the mummy of King Amenhotep I. And they didn’t even have to unwrap him at all.

Correction: This story has been updated to clarify the body was estimated to have been buried about 3,500 years ago. More than two millennia ago, an unnamed woman died under unknown circumstances.

A mummified body discovered over a century ago has been digitally unwrapped using CT technology, revealing the body of a teenage boy decorated with nearly 50 amulets highlighting a variety of ...

Mexico City — Mexico's federal archaeology agency on Monday accused the conservative-governed city of Guanajuato of mistreating one of the country's famous mummified 19th century bodies. The National ...

A mummified corpse up to 800 years old was found in a food delivery bag in Peru, authorities in the South American country have said. Photos released by the Directorate of Culture in the southeastern ...

The curious case of the green mummy has baffled scientists for decades. A teenager, buried in Italy hundreds of years ago, developed a distinctive emerald sheen not usually found on human remains. Now ...

A body was found inside the walls of a historic convention center in Oakland, California on Wednesday, prompting an investigation. A construction crew was working on the remodel of the Henry J. Kaiser ...