Mummies

The painful cavities may have led to the young Egyptian's demise.

Desert conditions inspired the Chinchorro people of South America to create mummies, researchers say.

The girls suffered some form of tuberculosis.

The mummies were found high in the Andes, preserved for some 500 years by the freezing cold.

The two mummies were strewn together from at least 3 different corpses.

The microbes survive despite extreme cold, heat, radiation and little water.

A mummified child in Korea whose organs were relatively well preserved had hepatitis B and has produced the oldest full viral genome description.

The ancient Egyptian man would've suffered from a rare cancerlike disease.

In his 20s when he died, the Egyptian man suffered from a rare cancerlike disease.

What do thieves want with a mummy?

Much has changed in archaeology since Indy fought Nazis with bullwhip in hand.

Evidence of irrigation-associated diseases could mean that ancient Nubians were using their environment in ways that impacted their health.

Fifteen mummies had particulates in their lungs.

The ancient Egyptian Dog Catacombs revealed a startling find: the remains of millions of dogs.

One English brain weathered 2,500 years underground, and scientists want to know how.

The artificial big toes may be the world's first prosthetics.

Archaeologists uncover the burial chamber of a priest carved in a cliff face.

King Tut died of a combination of malaria and a bone disorder, new DNA analysis reveals.