The Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology returned five Greenlandic Inuit mummies to Denmark last week, five years after their repatriation was first requested by Danish authorities. The ...

CHICAGO (WBBM) — Just in time for Halloween, scientists at the Field Museum of Natural History are peeling back the wrappings of several Egyptian mummies—without disrupting their eternal slumber. The ...

Analyzing samples of mummies from different dynastic periods showed how the mixtures of substances used in mummification ...

Talk about an identity crisis. Doctors now say that a 2,000 year−old Egyptian mummy in the Brooklyn Museum — thought to be Lady Hor — is actually a “he.” A CT scan last week determined the mummy’s ...

The National Institute of Anthropology and History has accused the city of Guanajuato of mishandling a mummified body during museum renovations. The arm of one of the mummies was detached during ...