POLICE have uncovered a creepy well-preserved mummy hidden in an alleged smuggler’s house after a shock raid. The mummy is ...

The dry Atacama desert has preserved many of these mummies until today. Jannina Campos, an archeologist at the Chinchorro ...

Last week (March 22), researchers reported the sequenced genome of a mummified fetus found in 2003 near Chile’s Atacama desert in Genome Research. Now, some Chilean scientists are condemning the study ...

which is home to some of the oldest mummies in the world, as per chile.travel. Foodies are also encouraged to try Azapa olive bread, a beloved local staple. The Atacama desert, which fringes the ...

(page 1428, this issue) analyzed DNA isolated from bone marrow of mummies excavated from the Atacama desert in north Chile. People buried in cemeteries of this region were naturally mummified by ...

ATACAMA DESERT, Chile — At the top of a craggy path in Socaire, a hilltop village deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a black flag whips in the wind above Jeanette Cruz's house. The desert sun has ...

The ancient mummy has now been handed over to experts ... The Chinchorro people from Chile's Atacama Desert are thought to be the first some 7,000 years ago - pre-dating the Egyptians' by 2,000 ...