Mummies

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.

A team of forensic scientists has managed to extract DNA from a 4,000-year-old mummy, and their finding has solved a century-old mystery of its ransacked tomb.

An ancient Egyptian coffin, previously thought to be empty, holds the mummified remains of an Egyptian priestess who lived 2,500 years ago.

Bizarre images of three-fingered "mummies" seem to be a collection of parts stolen from actual human mummies in Peru.

An archaeologist who followed a hunch has discovered the oldest figural tattoos in the world on the bodies of two 5,000-year-old mummies from Egypt.

The mummies were buried in shafts along the Nile River.

He's back. Prince Pentawere, a man who tried (probably successfully) to murder his own father, Pharaoh Ramesses III, is back in the news for a "screaming mummy" exhibit.

The finding settles a 111-year-old mystery that began when excavators exhumed the two mummies in Deir Rifeh.