Mummies

The tomb is so big that archaeologists have been excavating since the 19th century.

A 10,600-year-old mummy found in Nevada is helping scientists fill in their fuzzy picture of how humans first migrated into the Americas.

Ancient Egyptians seem to have been "cat people," or at least cat mummy people.

Tens of cat mummies and around 100 wooden statues of cats were discovered near a pyramid in Saqqara, Egypt. The area seems to have been used for cat burials thousands of years ago.

How did a 19th-century mummy in an iron coffin end up in a Queens construction site?

Frozen for more than 50,000 years, the pup still has its tail and paws.

Let us (not) eat the whitish mummy cheese.

Mummification in ancient Egypt began 1,500 years earlier than once thought.

The nearly 1,500-year-old remains of at least 60 people and six trophy heads have been discovered in deep pits in Vitor Valley in southern Peru.

Fabric buried with two ancient Chilean mummies is to die for.

The face mask was among a treasure trove of discoveries that included mummies, a burial shaft, mummification workshop and sarcophagi.

About 2,000 years ago, during the time Jesus supposedly walked the Earth, people buried a young woman wearing a silk skirt in a stone grave.

Turns out, beneath the carefully wrapped cartonnage was a stillborn fetus from ancient Egypt.

For those in power, however, the return of a dead shah represents a threat.

The remains of a 6-inch long mummy from Chile are not those of a space alien, according to recently reported research. These findings were supposed to end the controversy but they ignited a new one.