Known as "Fred," this mummy proves that Egyptians had been using embalming practices for 1,500 years longer than scientists ...

Old Gold-Laced Mummy With Ancient King's 'Secret Keeper' Discovered, Leaves Archaeologists Stunned In recent years, archaeologists from Egypt unearthed a tomb near the capital city, Cairo, revealing ...

radiocarbon dating determined that the "Iceman" died sometime between 3350 and 3300 B.C.—making him the oldest well-preserved mummy in the world. In 1972, hunters found some of the best ever ...

But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved ... sniffers to evaluate the odors from nine mummies as old as 5,000 years that had been either ...

In 1991, a body was found frozen in the ice high in the Alps. It was the oldest naturally preserved mummy ever found and created a media sensation. The corpse was even given a name: Oetzi ...

Centuries-old mummified remains from pre-Hispanic South America demonstrate the widespread practice of tattooing. Tattoos on mummies degrade ... are also commonly found in other Chancay art ...