For researchers at the Penn Museum, a 500-year-old mummy that still has perfectly preserved teeth and intact skin remains a ...

The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a group of researchers found her.

When two hikers set out to explore a relatively unknown side of Europe they returned with much more than they bargained for.

Researchers are beginning to reveal details about St. Teresa of Avila, the 16th-century Catholic saint whose body was found miraculously intact last year.

In the late 1980's, perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote Chinese desert. They had long reddish-blond hair, European features and didn't appear to be the ancestors ...

The almost perfectly preserved clothing offer a storehouse ... This time, several thousand feet below the summit, they found two more mummy children, a girl and a boy. It is believed these may ...

A new species of fossil is 444 million years-old with soft insides perfectly preserved. Research 'ultramarathon' saw palaeontologist puzzled by bizarre fossil for 25 years.

The tomb of a perfectly preserved saint is set to be unsealed as part of an ancient Catholic ritual. Saint Teresa of Avila's tomb will be unsealed and her 700-year-old remains left on display in ...

POLICE have uncovered a creepy well-preserved mummy hidden in an alleged smuggler's house after a shock raid. The mummy is thought to be that of a Christian person from the Middle Ages.

In the study, the most well-preserved mummy was in a coffin with a gilded mask, and even though it was one of the oldest, it had a wide variety of odor compounds that were often found in higher ...

which allowed for the body to remain almost perfectly intact. When found, in September 1991, Ötzi’s skin, hair, and clothing were still in a remarkably preserved state, offering an invaluable ...