The 1999 action adventure movie The Mummy (streaming now on Peacocks) takes viewers back to 1290 BC, in Egypt, where the high priest Imhotep is gambling on love, with death on the line. When ...

A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking it to the Chancay culture that predated the Inca Empire.

Believed to be around 5,600 years old, the Turin mummy was originally thought to be a preservation anomaly. Fred was believed to have been naturally preserved by the extreme desert heat.

Led by archaeogeneticist Nada Salem from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, a team of researchers analyzed the genes of two 7,000-year-old naturally preserved mummies of ...

The show is described as a never-before-seen collection of naturally and intentionally preserved mummies that provide a window into cultures dating as far back as 4,500 years ago. But check your ...

Experts have detected fungal growth on a mummy used for a Mexican exhibition. Experts said they are concerned that the traveling exhibition may pose health risks to the public.

Sep. 22—"Mummies of the World: The Exhibition" is a delicate endeavor in more ways than one. The first exhibit to inhabit The Corner Gallery in the Playhouse Square District in Cleveland — a ...

How were the Tarim Basin mummies found? Buried in a variety of cemeteries around the basin as long as 4,000 years ago, the naturally mummified corpses were first unearthed by European explorers in ...

A reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman, who lived and died in the European Alps some 5,200 years ago. His naturally mummified remains were discovered by German hikers on September 19, 1991.

LONDON -- Our fascination with mummies never gets old. Now the British Museum is using the latest technology to unwrap their ancient mysteries. Scientists at the museum have used CT scans and ...