We dig into the missing heart of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun and what archaeologists have learned a century since the discovery of the young pharaoh’s tomb. This spectacular mask represents an ...

Mummification is among the best-known religious practices of the ancient Egyptians, yet apart from a few textual descriptions and tomb paintings, very little is known about the facilities where this ...

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The Chinchorro people of the Pacific coast turned the raw pain of loss into something enduring and visible, reshaping the ...

The Chinchorro began mummifying their dead well before the Egyptians immortalized the practice. However, the Chinchorro ...

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 - ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

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

The mummified remains were excavated from a burial site in Bologna, Italy, and are almost complete except for the feet. They ...

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured two nearby dwarf galaxies interacting with each other in this image released on ...

The Egyptians are most well known for their Pyramids, and their mummification process, but what about some of the crazy ...