Egypt has announced the discovery of two of the largest workshops ever used to mummify human and animal corpses in ancient ...

The buildings where the complicated process was carried out on humans and sacred animals is more than 2,400 years old ...

CT scans of ancient child mummies revealed they suffered from an illness that gave them enlarged skulls, according to a new study. Photos from the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology Scans ...

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Analysis of mummies found at the archaeological site of Cahuachi in Peru has revealed the relationship that the Nazca culture ...

an animal with bilateral symmetry. From this wealth of genomic data, the team discovered four fusion-and-mixing events shared by bilaterians (amphioxus), jellyfish, and sponges but not by ctenophores.

The largest touring collection of mummified remains and related artifacts ever assembled has arrived at the Phillip and ...

Following an investigation into the features, it was discovered that the structure was an ancient quarry, with large ashlars being visibly hewn out of the rock. “No associated material has been ...

CT scans of ancient child mummies revealed they suffered from an illness that gave them enlarged skulls, according to a new study. Photos from the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology Scans ...

CT scans of ancient child mummies revealed they suffered from an illness that gave them enlarged skulls, according to a new study. Photos from the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology Scans ...

Scans of ancient Egyptian mummified children revealed that many of them suffered from a common illness that caused physical deformities. Researchers used CT scans to peer inside 21 mummies and found ...