Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Nefertari was the beloved wife of Rameses II, and her extravagant tomb proves it. Its restored paintings tell an interesting ...

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1999's "The Mummy" has managed to hold up incredibly well, even as the years turn into decades. Speaking of things that age gracefully, the mummies in "The Mummy" may have more historical accuracy ...

Once known as “Pharaoh’s Daughter”, the 3000-year-old male mummy took a bizarre path to a cupboard in Glasgow.

Archaeologists see Puente Piedra as a frontier of sorts. Wari officials had colonies across Peru between 600 and 1000 CE, ...

Archaeologists unearthed the "Screaming Woman" mummy, named after her gaping mouth, in Deir el-Bahari, near Luxor, Egypt, in 1935 while excavating the tomb of Senenmut, a prominent architect and ...

An archaeologist inspects the tattooed arm of a mummy, known as the Lady of Cao, from Peru's ancient Moche culture. This young woman— believed to be member of the Moche elite—died around A.D. 450.

Mummy Maker. Enter the embalmer's workshop, where you are to prepare the body of Ramose, officer to the king, for burial.The chief embalmer, ... Hands on History: Ancient Britain.

The man who was in possession of the mummy – which officials believe to be 600-800 years old – said it sleeps in his bedroom with him and that he takes care of it.