Mummy

More alike than you think: CT scans of ancient Egyptian mummies reveal back pain, dental issues

Both the mummies and 3D models and prints of the scans will be on display at the California Science Center’s upcoming “Mummies of the World: The Exhibition” exhibit on February 7.

Summer Decker, PHD, (left) 3D Imaging Lead for Keck Medicine of USC, and Diane Perlov, PHD, (right), Senior Vice President for special projects at the California Science Center, examine ancient Egyptian mummy Nes-Min before he is scanned, February 6, 2026.
Dinosaur, edmontosaurus close up with open mouth. Ukraine, Khmelnitsky, October 2021.

'Medusa,' possible 'dinosaur mummy' discovered in Badlands, transferred for further research

Copper ions in coffin reveal why Italian 'green mummy' turned emerald, say researchers.

Copper ions in coffin reveal why Italian 'green mummy' turned emerald, say researchers

Wyoming 'mummy' fossils reveal duck-billed dinosaur with hoofed feet, first evidence of hooves in dinosaurs.

Wyoming 'mummy' fossils show duck-billed dinosaur with hoofed feet, first proof of dinosaur hooves


CT scans unveil faces of Colombian Andes mummies long sealed by death masks

The group reconstructed a child of about six or seven years old, a woman in her 60s, and two young men.

CT scans unveil faces of Colombian Andes mummies long sealed by death masks.

A 1,000-Year-Old Mummy Unearthed Under Busy Lima Avenue

The burial lite lies in a pre-hispanic cemetery and points to a wider chancay necropolis beneath the capital.

Illustration: Peruvian mummy.

Near-infrared tech reveals stunning leopard tattoos on 2,300-year-old Siberian 'Ice Mummy'

'It suggests that tattoos were really something for the living with meaning during life, but that they actually did not play much of a role in the afterlife,' said Caspari.

Near-infrared tech reveals stunning leopard tattoos on 2,300-year-old Siberian 'Ice Mummy'.

Mummy research unveils Ötzi the Iceman's unexpected ancestry

Analysis reveals Copper Age communities were patrilineal, with diverse maternal lineages suggesting women married into male groups.

 A reconstruction of Ötzi the Iceman.

University of Turin team discovers unique facial tattoos on 800-year-old South American mummy

The tattoos were made with magnetite ink, an iron ore not previously found in any other South American mummy.

 University of Turin team discovers unique facial tattoos on 800-year-old South American mummy.

CT scans unveil mysteries of 18th-century Austrian priest mummy

They discovered a previously unknown embalming method involving filling the body cavities with materials.

 CT scans unveil mysteries of 18th-century Austrian priest mummy.

Ancient DNA reveals lost human tribe that lived in Green Sahara

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green Sahara as a migration corridor.

 Palm trees in green oasis in desert arid landscape between Agdz and Zagora towns in Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.

New study refutes claims of pregnancy and cancer in 'Mystery Lady' mummy

Lesions in skull likely due to poor brain extraction during mummification, not cancer.

 New study refutes claims of pregnancy and cancer in 'Mystery Lady' mummy.

Before King Tut: ‘The Untouchable’ Bashiri mummy baffles Egyptologists

Damaging the wrappings would destroy the only known evidence of this particular embalming technique.

 Before King Tut: ‘The Untouchable’ Bashiri mummy baffles Egyptologists.

Nile rats and Black Death: Mummy reveals bubonic plague in Egypt 3,290 years ago

Researchers have uncovered the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia in an ancient Egyptian mummy.

Did Nile rats spread the Black Death? Infected mummy shows bubonic plague existed in Egypt 3,290 years ago. Illustration.