APAn illustration of the Spirit Cave Mummy. Genetic testing has ended a 20-year debate between a Native American tribe and the U.S. government over the origins of the world’s oldest natural ...

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

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

Some of the world's best known mummies were created accidentally, when a body's final resting place happened to prevent the natural process of decay. But many cultures around the world have sought ...

Some of the world's best known mummies were created accidentally, when a body's final resting place happened to prevent the natural process of decay. But many cultures around the world have sought ...

Known popularly as Jacinto, the mummy passed through several institutions: the Museum of Antiquities of the Royal Library (1766), the Royal Cabinet of Natural History (1771, later called the ...

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 ...

Sniffing mummies also enables researchers to estimate their state of health and the protective treatments they have already undergone. Both synthetic and natural products have been detected ...