Mummy
On This Day: Howard Carter enters King Tut's burial chamber in Egypt's Valley of Kings
Additional treasures found within the burial chamber are housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
More alike than you think: CT scans of ancient Egyptian mummies reveal back pain, dental issues
'Medusa,' possible 'dinosaur mummy' discovered in Badlands, transferred for further research
Copper ions in coffin reveal why Italian 'green mummy' turned emerald, say researchers
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.
Lady Chenet-aa’s mummy reveals its secrets to team of researchers
Lady Chenet-aa died in her late thirties to early forties.
Peruvian 'alien mummies' confirmed to be inhuman
Researchers confirm Mexican alien mummies are not human, but refrain from declaring them extraterrestrial. Are they wary of potential consequences?
Pennsylvania mummy 'Stoneman Willie' to receive proper burial after 128 years
In 1895, a Pennsylvania mortician accidentally mummified an unidentified alcoholic from the local jail. More than a century later, Reading, PA's 'friend Willie' is finally being laid to rest.
Archaeologists unearth 1,000-year-old mummy in Peru residential neighborhood
Mummies and ancient offerings have already been found in the Huaca Pucllana site, and experts see the site as a Pandora's Box with much more to be found.
Care to smell a mummy? This Denmark museum will let you
The scent of the afterlife unbottled in new study of ancient Egyptian mummification balms
Mummified bees from time of King Solomon found off coast of Portugal
Many such fossilized cocoons have been found, some going back 100 million years in the fossil record, yet none so far have been found with the preserved body of its occupant still inside.
Archaeologists in Peru find 3,000 year-old mummy in Lima
Students from San Marcos University and researchers initially found remains of the mummy's hair and skull in a cotton bundle during excavation, before uncovering the rest of the mummy.
Sudan fighters take over Khartoum museum, director says
Museum staff do not know the situation inside the museum because they halted work there after the conflict suddenly erupted on April 15, forcing police guarding the facility to quit.
Egypt unearths mummification workshops, tombs in ancient burial ground
The discovery was made after a year-long excavation near the sanctuary of the goddess Bastet, which is home to the catacombs of mummified cats in Saqqara.
