The bodies appeared to have been artificially mummified by “smoke-drying” over fire Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in ...

LIMA, Peru -- A mummy estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old has been unearthed by archeologists in Peru, at a site near the country's capital city of Lima. Researchers from the National ...

For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming methods differ, but not all of them are studied equally well. In a first report ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected way. These dinosaur remains are different from the wrapped mummies of ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

The article explores the significance of Egyptian mummies, especially those of prominent figures like Tutankhamun, Ramesses II, Hatshepsut, Amenhotep III, and Seti I, in providing insights into ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish researchers ...

Previously, some of the oldest mummies on earth were known to be in South America and dated back to about 7,000 years ago Scientists revealed they have discovered the world’s oldest known mummies. A ...

NEW YORK — Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that seem to have been preserved in an unexpected way. These dinosaur remains are different from the wrapped mummies of Egypt or ...