Mummies—named after the bitumen tar, mum, used to coat the linen winding strips around them—have long held an almost magical fascination. The "civilized" world was titillated by Egypt's ...

All other high-altitude Inca mummies have been completely desiccated ... A month after Reinhard's amazing discovery of Juanita, he returned to Ampato with a full archaeological team to explore ...

Are these perfume descriptions? Not at all. These adjectives refer to a series of Egyptian mummies whose smells have been analyzed by an international team of researchers. The results were ...

The health status of people living in ancient times has remained under wraps—quite literally so in the case of Egyptian mummies. But thanks in part to developments in medical imaging ...