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 […] ...

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.

To look upon a mummy is to come face to face with our past. This book presents the story of mummification as a practice worldwide. Mummies have been found on every continent, some deliberately ...

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 ...

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the ...

The health status of people living in ancient times has remained under wraps—quite literally so in the case of Egyptian mummies. But thanks in part to developments in medical imaging ...

The lavish, multimillion-dollar spectacle saw 22 mummies - 18 kings and four queens - transported from the peach-coloured, neo-classical Egyptian Museum to their new resting place 5km (three miles ...

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 ...

Welcome to our Brummie Mummies section, bringing you the best ideas for things to do with the family. We have lots of top tips and handy guides for mums and dads with children of all ages.

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 ...

(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 ...