During the latest dig, the archaeologists also found 29 amulets with the mummies. Some amulets are in the shape of scarab beetles, as the ancient Egyptians associated scarabs with the movement of ...

The ancient tomb contains about 300 mummies, the University of Barcelona said in a Dec. 16 news release. So far, ...

Scientists in Australia have discovered the remains of a mummy in a 2,500-year-old coffin ... have just been a pile of dirt and debris into a real archaeological find", he said.

It is unclear whether the three mummies discovered are connected to Amenemhat. The mummies were found down a burial shaft leading off the main chamber, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities said.

In one Aleutian cave, archaeologists found more than 50 mummies dating back 250 years. In Papua New Guinea, embalmers smoke-cured the dead, covered them in a protective layer of clay and propped ...

The mummies were found in the Quewaisna necropolis, about 40 miles south of Cairo in Egypt, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a Facebook post on November 24. It is the latest in a ...

The first frozen high mountain Inca human sacrifice was found atop a peak in Chile in 1954. "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo," the Mummy of El Plomo Peak became its name, and until Juanita ...

Scientists successfully extracted and sequenced DNA from a 3,600-year-old cheese found smeared on mummies in the Xiaohe cemetery in Xinjiang, Western China. The cheese, discovered nearly two ...

Archaeologists have uncovered several ancient Egyptian tombs containing dozens of mummies—some of which were found with gold tongues and nails—among other remarkable artifacts. A joint ...

They said some real biological parts were found in the mermaid. For example, the lower body contains bones from perhaps the tail and dorsal fins of a Sciaenidae fish, while the mummy’s jaw was ...