See the medieval structure →'Mammoth graveyard' next to ancient settlement may have been dumping ground, study says Inside, archaeologists found several mummies as well as tools used in funerals ...

Fifty mummies dating back to the Ptolemaic era (305-30BC) have been found by Egyptian archaeologists, the antiquities ministry says. The mummies, of which 12 were children, were found in four ...

It is unclear whether the three mummies discovered are connected to Amenemhat. The mummies were found down a burial shaft leading off the main chamber, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities said.

But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin ... preserved mummy bundles were found. Apparently, the dry climate ...

Two more ‘alien mummies’ have been found in Peru as the mystery into their origins takes a new twist. Paloma and Antonio are the names given to the two new figures who have been discovered in ...

After analysing ancient cheese found alongside mummies in China dating from the Bronze Age, scientists have discovered the cheese is kefir. The research, published in the journal Cell, suggests a ...

In one Aleutian cave, archaeologists found more than 50 mummies dating back 250 years. In Papua New Guinea, embalmers smoke-cured the dead, covered them in a protective layer of clay and propped ...

The mummies date back around 3,500 years, to the Bronze Age. Scientists decided to take a closer look at the mystery food to work out what it was. They found that the cheese contained both cow and ...