LIMA, Peru -- A mummy estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old has been unearthed by archeologists in Peru, at a site near the country's capital city of Lima. Researchers from the National ...
Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University in the U.K. digitally removed face masks from ancient Colombian mummies ...
Peruvian workers clearing the way for new gas pipes stumbled across a mummy that archaeologists have since determined to be approximately 1,000 years old. The mummified remains were discovered not ...
Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...
Researchers consider the discovered remains to be mummies because they were deliberately mummified through smoke-drying, even ...
A crew of workers accidentally discovered a mummy more than 1,000 years old while installing gas pipes in Peru's capital Lima, their employer and archaeologists said Thursday. The mummy was found last ...
The production crew of National Geographic's "The Mummy Roadshow" did not have to traverse the terrain of Peru to investigate a mummy -- they only had to go as far as the Arts Quad. An episode ...
But the practice of artificially preserving bodies shows up in archaeological records around the world. Now, a new study suggests that mummification dates back much earlier, to some of the first human ...