Scientists Unearth 7,000-Year-Old Mummies With DNA that Doesn’t Match Known Human Lineages ...

About 66 million years ago, a herd of herbivorous dinosaurs succumbed to drought – tragically, just hours or days before heavy rains fell. We know this because they left some of the most incredibly ...

In the second episode of our Dead World series, digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur examines how extreme environments preserved ...

High in Himachal Pradesh’s Spiti Valley, Gue village houses a naturally preserved 500-year-old monk, Sangha Tenzin, seated in meditation. Visitors can experience this rare heritage treasure amid ...

Researchers have uncovered the reason an “unusual” 18th-century mummy was preserved so well in Austria – and it’s highly abnormal. A study about the mummy was recently published in the journal ...

Using advanced CT imaging, the team has discovered new details about the mummies’ health, lifestyles and humanity.

High in Spiti Valley, the village of Gue is home to a naturally preserved 500-year-old mummy of Buddhist monk Sangha Tenzin. Discovered after an earthquake and brought to public attention by road ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have uncovered the mummified remains of cheetahs from caves in northern Saudi Arabia. The remains range from 130 years old to over 1,800 years old. Researchers excavated seven ...

Aerial view of a statue of the Chinchorro culture, in Camarones, Arica, Chile, on March 23, 2022. Photo by MARTIN BERNETTI/AFP via Getty Images. Here on these barren desert hillsides along the Pacific ...

Do mummies belong in museums? The instinctive answer may be “yes,” but that answer might change when you consider what a mummy actually is. A mummy, simply put, is a body that’s unusually well ...