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

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

The story of Juanita the Ice Maiden; one of the most famous mummies in the world who was offered up as an Inca child ...

The sole surviving sample of Queen Cleopatra's handwriting, found on an ancient papyrus, reveals a single Greek word, ...

Although the Inca Empire reigned across the Americas for just one century, its greatest legacy, Machu Picchu, has intrigued ...

For over 3,000 years, ancient Egypt was one of the most powerful civilizations on Earth, with an empire stretching across ...

Mummies can also form through unintentional or accidental processes, a phenomenon known as "natural" mummification. This occurs when a deceased body is exposed to extreme environmental conditions ...

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Other types of frozen ice age mummies, such as woolly rhinos and mammoths, are known from the Siberian region of Yakutia in Russia. But mummified cats, by comparison, “are extremely rare,” Lopatin ...

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 ...

(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 ...