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 ...

The Sun is flaring up unexpectedly; a 60-year diabetes mystery may finally be solved; the oldest human mummies aren't what we ...

Mummifying the dead is a funerary rite that has been practiced for thousands of years in many locations across the world.

A new study has found that Asia preserved the dead as mummies thousands of years before Egypt did. This research is being ...

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would ...

Around 120 to 130 million years ago, northeast China was home to a lush landscape filled with temperate forests, lakes, and diverse wildlife. Today, this ancient ecosystem, preserved in the Yixian ...

Russian scientists presented the carcass of a baby mammoth, whose incredibly well-preserved remains were found in the Siberian region of Yakutia in June after more than 50,000 years. The carcass of ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. -- For the better part of a century, visitors to the Public Museum of Grand Rapids had flocked to the ancient Egypt display, which included not just the usual run of artifacts but ...