A mummy was discovered by utility workers in Peru, and it is believed to have belonged to an adolescent from a pre-Inca ...

Peruvian gas workers this week found a thousand-year-old mummy while installing pipes in Lima, their company said, confirming the latest discovery of a pre-Hispanic tomb in the capital.

1,000 year old mummy discovered in Peru’s capital: Teenage boy's remains found buried; artefacts including tomb markers unearthed ...

The environment along Peru’s coastline often naturally mummifies remains. Workers laying new natural gas pipeline in Lima, ...

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

Ceramic objects, including plates, bottles and jugs decorated with geometric figures and figures of fishermen, were found next to the mummy. The tomb and artefacts belong to the pre-Inca Chancay ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

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

An Egyptian genome has finally been unraveled, thanks to a sample from an at least 4,500 year-old mummy dating back to the ...

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

Found in the ancient city of Caracol, the tomb contained a rare jade mask, ceramics, and jewelry often linked to the Maya ...

A rare mosaic death mask made of jadeite and vessels in the shapes of an owl, a monkey and coatimundi were found with the ...