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 ...

The Reading Public Museum has unwrapped many of the secrets of Nefrina's life, from how she died to what she looked like. Now what was meant to protect her face in the afterlife has been returned.

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

Workers Were Laying a Gas Pipeline—and Uncovered a 1,000-Year-Old Child Mummy And there’s more discoveries where that came from.

Beamish in Country Durham, which recreates life from bygone eras, is named the UK's museum of the year.

1,000-year-old pre-Inca mummy, possibly from Chancay culture, was found just 20 inches underground in Lima, Peru, during gas line work.

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.