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.

The mummy had gone unnoticed despite urban development in a district where agricultural fields have been converted into working-class neighborhoods.

In exchange, we were also given a new fear in the form of flesh-eating scarab beetles. In the mythos of the film, scarabs are carnivorous insects travelling in large numbers, capable of stripping ...

The building and the paintings date back to the Ptolemaic and Roman eras. A huge 2,300-year-old funerary building and a number of mummy portraits were discovered in Egypt's southern province of ...

The first-ever “The Mummy” Loungefly bag has arrived at Universal Orlando Resort. The backpack is inspired by the Book of the Dead from the lost city of Hamunaptra.

The discovery was confirmed; these were the remains of a pre-Inca mummy, preserved for nearly 1,000 years beneath the bustling city streets.

The mummy was probably an adolescent and found in an underground tomb wrapped in a funerary bundle, along with ceramics and rope and including bits of skin and hair.

Archaeologists found tombs, funerary masks and figurines during a recent excavation of a necropolis containing hundreds of mummies in Aswan, Egypt.

Pennsylvania mummy known as 'Stoneman Willie' identified after 128 years of mystery The corpse been a fixture at a Reading funeral home for decades.

Over 1,500 years, some 200 “spells” (as Lepsius dubbed them) were written on the walls of tombs and carved into stone and onto scarab and funerary figurines—and ultimately inscribed, with ...

2,300-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy Covered in Gold Unwrapped After Century in Basement Digitally unwrapping the mummy of a teenage boy for the first time, researchers find dozens of amulets -- and a ...

A huge 2,300-year-old funerary building and a number of mummy portraits were discovered in Egypt's southern province of Fayoum, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) south of Cairo, the country's ...