Some of the world's best known mummies were created accidentally, when a body's final resting place happened to prevent the natural process of decay. But many cultures around the world have sought ...

Do you know where the oldest mummies in the world are located? The answer is not Egypt. The Chinchorro people created the first mummies in the world along the coast of what is today northern Chile.

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

Julia Felton Thursday, June 25, 2020 10:10 a.m. | Thursday, June 25, 2020 10:10 a.m. Carnegie Science Center is extending its popular Mummies of the World exhibition as the museum reopens after ...

Historian and biologist José Viera y Clavijo described the cave in which "no less than a thousand mummies" were found ... by many museums around the world, from the British Museum to the Museum ...

After nearly a century in relative obscurity, Sicilian mummies have now been given the ... BBC Click attend Mobile World Congress to test the latest tech products and trends.

"This is the oldest known cheese sample ever discovered in the world," says paleontologist Qiaomei Fu from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. "Food items like cheese are extremely difficult to ...

“Many people have sniffed mummies, of course,” says Matija Strlič, a professor of analytical chemistry at the University of Ljubljana and a professor of heritage science at University College London.

This unique watercolour shows the lifting of the mummies of the priest kings of Amun from beneath the temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari in 1891. It is possibly the only record of the ...

The British Museum houses an incredible collection of artefacts from Ancient Egypt, from the famed Rosetta Stone to an impressive collection of mummies.

But mummies dating as far back as 100 A.D have ... and 3300 B.C.—making him the oldest well-preserved mummy in the world. In 1972, hunters found some of the best ever naturally-preserved human ...

For anyone who has ever wanted to see the results of mummification via both natural processes and intentional practices, the Mummies of the World exhibition is a highly anticipated close-up ...