The mummies of the world exhibit is wrapping up this weekend after an exhilarating run at the Museum of Idaho.

Egyptian mummies are historically important and a popular source of interest for people even today. These mummies provide ...

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

The Gilded Lady mummy, intact since Roman-era Egypt (30 BCE–395 CE). The interior of the mummy was finally revealed in 2011 with CT scanning. (© 2015 The Field Museum, photo by John Weinstein) (click ...

But Putnam Museum officials want desperately to know more about the beloved female mummy — believed to be 3,000 years old — which is a longtime part of the collection there, and another, unnamed mummy ...

Scientists are using high-tech tools to help solve the mystery of how the Canary Islands came to be inhabited. This mummy once rested in a fabled Tenerife cave whose location was lost to history, ...

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient Egyptian mummies smell like? Whether you wanted to know or not, scientists have ...

Old friends, new tales : the mummies and coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science / Michele L. Koons -- A history of research and exploring new narratives : contextualizing the Denver Museum ...

An estimated 3,000-year-old mummy believed to be from the Manchay civilization was discovered by archaeologists digging at a trash dump site near Lima, the capital of Peru. Students from San Marcos ...

After fungus was found, experts say an exhibit of mummies in Mexico may pose a health risk to humans. The display has traveled to the United States in the past, and appeared in a recent tourism fair ...