Do humans get a happily ever after?”  “What?” I asked, confused.  “Why do humans have to die?” she asked again.  I turned ...

However, before modern technology, researchers often damaged the mummies they found while studying them. According to the American Museum of Natural History, “In the past, the only way to learn about ...

Mummification of animals was prevalent in ancient Egypt, as many tombs have been found containing remains of animals along ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the vast desert during its greener past.

One such theory was the doctrine of signatures, which held that natural substances resembled ... mistakenly conflated mūmiyā with Egyptian mummies, assuming that the embalmed dead were imbued ...

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the African humid period. This population had been long isolated from other ...

Securities and Exchange Board of India introduces new regulations. These rules aim to safeguard investors from market risks.

The museum would one day be known as the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). His Egyptian keepsakes were, in fact, mummies. But Cox—a lawyer, journalist and author who served ...

Egyptian mummies have always been a subject of great ... it was cleaned using palm wine and aromatic spices. To restore its natural shape, the body was filled with linen or sand.

Melissa Jolly, 32, from Manchester, hated her appearance after giving birth to her four children - so she decided to go under ...