High-tech imaging uncovered new insights into ancient mummies’ health and mummification methods. Egyptian mummy remains are ...

Discovery of ancient remains challenges existing evolutionary theories.

The intricate mysteries of ancient Egyptian mummification are being unraveled at Semmelweis University in Hungary, where researchers have employed a state-of-the-art photon-counting CT scanner to ...

Archaeologists in Poland are finally solving an over 2,000-year-old mummy mystery. After modern warfare erased vital ...

A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed the bacterium that causes strep throat was present in the ...

Researchers used a high-resolution CT scanner to study 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy remains, revealing new insights into mummification.

It has long been known that the Sahara Desert, today one of the driest and most inhospitable regions in the world, was quite the opposite thousands of years ago. Around 14,800 to 5,500 years ago, ...

Egyptian mummy remains were examined at Semmelweis University's Medical Imaging Center (OKK). The archaeological finds ...

There's a problem with the mummies at the University of Tarapacá's archaeological museum in northern Chile. They're turning into a black oozy substance. Harvard University's School of Engineering and ...

Researchers have identified Streptococcus pyogenes, the bacterium behind strep throat and scarlet fever, in a 700-year-old mummy from Bolivia, marking the earliest confirmed presence of the pathogen ...