The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...

In a recent study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Dr. Bernardo Arriaza argues that the practice of ...

Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for animals — have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt. The workshops date back around 2,300 years and were in use between the late ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

LONDON — At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies ...

The discovery of an unusual set of ceramic vessels has shed new light on the mummification process in ancient Egypt, according to a new study. Around 2,500 years old, the 31 jars were discovered in an ...

Ancient Egyptians kept sacred, revered baboons in captivity, a new study has revealed. Archeologists and historians already knew that Egyptians revered and mummified several species of animals ...

Ancient mummified crocodiles recovered from an undisturbed tomb in Egypt were preserved in a "unique" manner, scientists have found, and some of the bodies were even decapitated after being dried out.

Centuries after they were painstakingly prepared for death, mummies still produce an odour described as woody, spicy and sweet. But unfortunately for the Egyptians, who believed a 'good' smell after ...

Let’s start with this secret: Mummies weren’t spooky to the ancient Egyptians. “Nowadays, when we look at anything dead, we consider it to be creepy,” says Egyptologist and National Geographic ...