Fu is the director of the Ancient DNA Laboratory at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing ...

There’s a haunting attraction in the heart of Mexico that is guaranteed to send shivers running down your spine. The […] ...

In September, staff members rolled 26 of the mummies on display at the museum on specially built carts to the parking lot to be put through a mobile CT scanner. The nondestructive technology ...

Mummies—named after the bitumen tar, mum, used to coat the linen winding strips around them—have long held an almost magical fascination. The "civilized" world was titillated by Egypt's ...

Mummies can be dried in the sun, with fire or smoke, or with chemicals. Since most bacteria and fungi cannot live in sub-freezing temperatures, permanent freezing can also produce a mummy.

(CNN) — Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History have peered beneath the wrappings of ancient Egyptian mummified human remains to uncover new details about their identities and ...

This book presents the story of mummification as a practice worldwide. Mummies have been found on every continent, some deliberately preserved by use of a variety of complex techniques (as with the ...

She explained to us how the medical use of mummies paired with later Egyptomania resulted in the loss of millions of mummies. Produced by Grace Raver and Christine Nguyen Follow TI: On Facebook ...

For the first time, researchers were able to see inside the mummies in the Chicago Field Museum’s collections. Their findings paint a more comprehensive picture of ancient Egyptian life Julia ...

One of these is San Francisco-based cartoon Mummies Alive!, which ran for a single, 42-episode season in 1997. Let us now listen to the theme tune: a song drenched in exposition, vague nods to the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed 2,000-year-old mummies with golden tongues placed inside their mouths in northern Egypt, the antiquities ministry says. An Egyptian-Dominican team working at ...

To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching. Mummies are studied to answer questions about the health, social standing, and ...