Archaeologists have uncovered 40 perfectly preserved mummies — including 10 children — in the desert province of Minya, Egypt. Found inside ancient tombs, the discovery spans the Ptolemaic to ...

It may be Rachel Weinz and Brendan Fraser's fault, but whenever we think of mummies, we can't help but imagine Egypt. This ...

The Mummy franchise traces its roots to the 1930s, when Boris Karloff portrayed the historic embalmed character at the height of the Universal Classic Monsters heyday. The first film, made in 1932, ...

Libya's civil war has placed the Uan Muhuggiag mummy at risk. But negotiations are underway to transport the rare artifact ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm.

A new study has found that Asia preserved the dead as mummies thousands of years before Egypt did. This research is being recognized as evidence of ...

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During her hunt for the Egyptian queen’s lost tomb, National Geographic Explorer Kathleen Martínez uncovered the sunken ...

The world’s oldest human mummies were preserved using smoke drying techniques 10,000 years ago, new research has found. A ...

Liz and I paused among the ancient art to contemplate an Egyptian mummy that was more than 2,000 years old. An accompanying placard explained what we were seeing. The remains inside the ornate shell, ...

Southeast Asian people mummified their died by smoke-drying them, creating 14,000-year-old mummies that are twice as old as ...