Without a doubt, the ancient Egyptians are the experts in body preservation and mummification. However, they were not the ...

Archaeologists now think they may have been the citizens of an ancient civilization that existed at the crossroads between China and Europe. Mummies of "Tomb 2" This mummy of a young woman was ...

Egyptians: the masters of mummification Ancient ... The "Greenland Mummies," who died about 500 years ago, consisted of a six-month old baby, a four-year old boy, and six women of various ages.

An ancient Egyptian woman thought to have been pregnant and dying of cancer was actually just embalmed with a technique that mimicked these diagnoses, researchers have concluded, settling a four-year ...

X-rays of the mummy of an ancient Egyptian noblewoman reveal an assortment of health issues: from curvature of the spine, known as scoliosis, to other deformities that could be the result of polio.