Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

Scientists used CT scans to ‘digitally unwrap’ the approximately 2,300-year-old undisturbed mummy of a teenage boy of high socioeconomic status. The body was equipped with 49 amulets of 21 different ...

Like other Madagascar peoples, the Sakalava honor their dead with funeral monuments. Sakalava wood sculptures, usually in the form of birds or nude female and male figures (sometimes erotically ...

Archaeologist Geórgea Layla Holanda examines a funerary urn found beneath a tree in the Brazilian Amazon. Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development / Márcio Amaral Beneath the roots of a ...

While installing new pipes in Lima, Peru, utility workers stumbled upon a pre-Inca burial: a mummy of a child between ages 10 and ... including Lima, mainly funerary elements: tombs, burials and, ...

Science News: Scientists have discovered that Aspergillus flavus, a fungus linked to ancient “mummy curses,” contains compounds effective against leukemia cells. Re ...

In a stunning archaeological find, a 1,000-year-old mummy has been discovered just over a metre below ground during a routine gas pipeline installation in Lima, Peru.

We review Men-Nefer, a game where you will relive one of the greatest periods of ancient Egypt and carry out tasks typical to Egyptian culture.

New insights into prehistoric life, funerary practices of early South Indian communities The workshop offered students a rare opportunity to observe and analyze material culture, burial typologies, ...