Egyptian mummies are historically important and a popular source of interest for people even today. These mummies provide ...

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

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 - ...

The Gilded Lady mummy, intact since Roman-era Egypt (30 BCE–395 CE). The interior of the mummy was finally revealed in 2011 with CT scanning. (© 2015 The Field Museum, photo by John Weinstein) (click ...

Analysis of substances uncovered in embalming workshop gives insight into the mummification process, and how CAR T therapies could turbocharge cancer treatments. Mummification was a significant part ...

History of mummy studies -- The purpose of anthropogenic mummification -- Mechanisms of mummification -- The geography of mummies: Mummies from North America ; Mummies from South America ; Mummies ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient Egyptian mummies smell like? Whether you wanted to know or not, scientists have ...