Haunting photos captured the final poses of a handful of Persian salt mine workers whose remains languished inside a salt mine for thousands of years before they were unearthed. The six corpses – ...

When you hear the word mummy, chances are you think of ancient Egypt. Many different cultures embalmed their deceased, however, and scientists have just found a particularly unexpected case. As ...

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 300-year-old mummified body of a vicar has been "exceptionally well preserved" - thanks to a never-before-seen embalming method. The mummy - known locally as "The Air-Dried Priest" - was embalmed ...

Utility workers recently came across a millennia-old mummy that predates the Inca Empire. The groundsmen were excavating trenches in the Peruvian capital of Lima earlier in June when they came across ...

Though they died thousands of years ago, hundreds of bodies excavated in western China’s Tarim Basin look remarkably alive. They retain the hairstyles, clothing, and accoutrements of a long-past ...

Austrian scientists have discovered a bizarre and previously unknown embalming method used on a centuries old mummy found in a church crypt, leaving the body in remarkably well preserved condition.

The ancient city of Swenett, now Aswan, thrived between 6 B.C. and 9 A.D. Archaeologists have discovered a “City of the Dead” in Aswan, Egypt near the Mausoleum of Aga Khan III, putting an end to five ...

Cheetah mummies unearthed in Saudi caves provide rare DNA, uncover ancient movements across continents, and reshape ...