The Exhibition brings together over 30 naturally and intentionally preserved human and animal mummies from South America, ...

Mummies are bodies of people or animals preserved after death. The process of mummification used by ancient cultures that preserved their dead for hundreds, even thousands, of years differs from more ...

Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for animals — have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt. The workshops date back around 2,300 years and were in use between the late ...

In a recent study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Dr. Bernardo Arriaza argues that the practice of artificial mummification among the Chinchorro people may have evolved as a ...

The Chinchorro people of the Pacific coast turned the raw pain of loss into something enduring and visible, reshaping the bodies of their dead into carefully crafted figures that still hold their form ...

In honor of the "Mummies of the World" exhibit on display Feb. 10-Sept. 2 at the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix, here are answers to five top questions about mummies. When most people think of ...

Mummification is usually associated with the age of Pharaohs, with the practice largely believed to have first arisen around 2200 BCE and hit its peak around 1000 BCE. But processes this complex don't ...

The earliest mummies are typically associated with the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt, but as an intensive examination of a 5,600-year-old mummy confirms, the methods used for this iconic funeral ...

Archaeologists have identified what is believed to be the earliest known evidence of human mummification, predating those found in ancient Egypt by thousands of years. Published in the Proceedings of ...

Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery is made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in the Sado Valley in Portugal, dating to 8,000 years ...

To determine the culture and method of mummification of various mummies by using descriptive clues. Mummies are bodies of people or animals preserved after death. The process of mummification used by ...