What comes to mind when you think of the Sahara Desert? Today, the Sahara is a harsh environment where survival can be ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

But the practice of artificially preserving bodies shows up in archaeological records around the world. Now, a new study ...

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier than their Egyptian counterparts, new research has found.

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

For more than a century, archaeologists have searched for the legendary Queen Nefertiti, Egypt’s most mysterious ruler. Now, groundbreaking DNA analysis and fresh clues from a hidden tomb deep in the ...

Scientists have uncovered remarkable details about the gut microbiome of a man who lived in Mexico around 1,000 years ...