The mud shell was added after the woman's original mummification, perhaps to repair damage inflicted by grave robbers. Courtesy of the Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney The mummification of ...

An unusual mud-wrapped mummy is leading archaeologists to rethink how nonroyal Egyptians preserved their dead. CT scans of an Egyptian mummy from around 1200 B.C. reveal that the body is sheathed in a ...

General view of a parade at a ceremony of a transfer of royal mummies in Cairo, Egypt, on April 3, 2021, i Host Broadcaster/Reuters TV More than 20 of Egypt's ancient royal mummies were transported to ...

That’s one old kitty. Researchers have discovered the remains of a 35,000-year-old saber-toothed tiger cub nearly perfectly preserved in Siberian permafrost, according to reports. The remains — ...