Researchers discovered that a 1746 Austrian mummy was embalmed with wood chips and zinc chloride, preserving internal tissues ...

The mystery of an 18th-century Austrian mummy might finally be solved, according to a new study unravelling the "little-known ...

It is five years since we sadly lost Dame Vera Lynn, but carrying on her famous parent's charity work, Virginia Lewis-Jones ...

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and cemeteries in, under, and around the city. Remains of a sprawling ...

A stunning archaeological discovery has recently been made in the Caral region of Peru, where a 5,000-year-old mummy was ...

Scientists have figured out how the body of an 18th-century Austrian vicar has remained so well-preserved for nearly 300 ...

A centuries-old famous mummy from Austria was embalmed by filling the pelvic cavity through the rectum with materials to ...

An archaeological site that used to be a garbage dump has revealed the extraordinarily preserved mummy of an elite woman from ...

The mummies of Vác remain relatively unknown even though there are hundreds of them in the crypt of the town's Roman Catholic ...

Learn how the examination of Austrian mummy remains reveals details of his life, but leaves a few mysteries behind.

An incredible example of this is the little-known case of a mummy located in the church crypt of St Thomas am Blasenstein, in ...

Stored in a church crypt in a remote Alpine village, a set of unusually well-preserved human remains has long been a rich ...