"An appropriate ornament of the operating room" : Padihershef and the beginnings of mummymania in nineteenth-century America -- "As cheap as candidates for the presidency" : Egyptian mummies in early ...

Using modern testing techniques, Nevada anthropologists lay claim to the oldest mummy in North America. "The results are astonishing," said Amy Dansie of the Nevada State Museum. Radiocarbon testing ...

LIMA, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed four mummies of children believed to be at least 1,000 years old from what was once a sacred ceremonial space that is now in one of the ...

Two fossilised mummies unearthed by scientists in Wyoming in the US have revealed a surprising detail. A thin layer of clay preserved the outer body contours of the duck-billed dinosaur. Scientists ...