Featured artefacts from The British Museum’s world-famous collection include the double-headed serpent of the Aztecs, the ...

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

"It was to protect her head, it was placed on there to protect her," said Snyder. Nefrina came to the Reading Public Museum in 1930 but her mask didn't. She's been waiting 82 years.

Science News: Scientists have discovered that Aspergillus flavus, a fungus linked to ancient “mummy curses,” contains compounds effective against leukemia cells. Re ...

Utility crews constructing a natural gas pipeline in Peru uncovered a 1,000-year-old mummy. Located in what is now a neighborhood, the seated mummy was likely the result of a pre-Hispanic burial.

An open-air museum in County Durham that features faithful recreations of old homes, shops, farms and a colliery has won the annual award for the UK's museum of the year.

Reportedly, an archaeologist with utility Calidda, Jose Aliaga, said that the exhumed mummy was found in a seated position, covered in a bundle, still with its dark brow hair. The archaeologists ...

Supporters saw the Mütter’s preserved fetuses, skulls, and “Soap Lady” as a celebration of human difference. New management ...

Peruvian gas workers this week found a thousand-year-old mummy while installing pipes in Lima, their company said, confirming the latest discovery of a pre-Hispanic tomb in the capital.