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.

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

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm.

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

Haunting photos captured the final poses of a handful of Persian salt mine workers whose remains languished inside a salt mine for thousands of years before they were unearthed. The six corpses – ...

HONG KONG — When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was excavated in northwestern China two decades ago, archeologists discovered a mysterious substance laid out along her neck like a piece of ...

About 20 years ago, researchers discovered three ancient mummies in China. They had a strange white substance smeared around their necks, which turned out to be chunks of preserved cheese. Dating back ...