This mysterious Egyptian mummy was discovered in 1919 in the Valley ... The shroud covering the body reveals even more about his importance. It displays scenes of the deceased lying on a bed ...

So successful were they that today we can view the mummified body of an Egyptian and have a good idea of what he or she looked like in life, 3,000 years ago. Mummification was practiced throughout ...

The Guanche people of the Canary Islands typically mummified all deceased members of their community until the arrival of ...

T attoos found on the face and arm of an ancient South American mummy are completely unlike any other known examples of ...

Once destined for the afterlife, these ancient dead had become commercial goods, shipped to Europe where they were crushed ...

Scientists have figured out how the body of an 18th-century Austrian vicar has remained so well-preserved for nearly 300 ...

Placing a body in an oxygen-free environment ... In fact, the oldest-known Egyptian mummy, dated around 3500 B.C., is believed to have been created in this way. The first "artificial" Egyptian ...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Museo EgizioFred, the Turin mummy. One incredibly well-preserved 5,600-year-old mummy is now upending much of what we thought we knew about Ancient Egyptian embalming. A new study published in the ...

His Egyptian keepsakes were, in fact, mummies. But Cox—a lawyer ... The drying that prevented decay of the body was accomplished using natron, a mix of four salts found in abundance along ...

For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming methods differ, but not all of them are studied equally well.