The Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology returned five Greenlandic Inuit mummies to Denmark last week, five years after their repatriation was first requested by Danish authorities. The ...

CHICAGO (WBBM) — Just in time for Halloween, scientists at the Field Museum of Natural History are peeling back the wrappings of several Egyptian mummies—without disrupting their eternal slumber. The ...

2,500-year-old remains to go on tour in U.S. CHICAGO – Not until the lid was off the wood coffin – exposing the 2,500-year-old mummified remains of a 14-year-old Egyptian boy – could J.P. Brown relax.

The team then developed two ways to present ancient scents to the public. Alongside the artifacts that inspired this project, ...

A 2,000-year-old mummy was analyzed by Field Museum scientists this week. The scientists looked further into the artistic techniques behind a portrait that was part of the wrappings of the Egyptian ...

Talk about an identity crisis. Doctors now say that a 2,000 year−old Egyptian mummy in the Brooklyn Museum — thought to be Lady Hor — is actually a “he.” A CT scan last week determined the mummy’s ...