The Chinchorro people of the Pacific coast turned the raw pain of loss into something enduring and visible, reshaping the ...

Egyptians may not have used mummification to preserve the body at all, some scientists say. They could've wanted to turn royal remains into godly statues — preservation was a perk, they said.

In a recent study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Dr. Bernardo Arriaza argues that the practice of ...

The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...

Authorities continue to investigate the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, who were recently found in their New Mexico home. While the exact cause remains unknown, reports indicate ...

The earliest mummies are typically associated with the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, but as an intensive examination of a 5,600-year-old mummy confirms, the methods used for this iconic funeral ...

A relatively wet climatic period may have triggered the development 7000 years ago of complex culture in hunter-gatherer communities in the Atacama Desert, including the earliest known examples of ...

Animal mummification in ancient Egypt was a carefully organized practice that connected spiritual beliefs with economic activity. This wasn’t a rare or occasional ritual but a large, sustained ...