Researchers have uncovered the reason an “unusual” 18th-century mummy was preserved so well in Austria – and it’s highly abnormal.

Peabody Museum has acquired a real, pre-Incan mummy which has rapidly disintegrated during the last week into piles of bones and blood-stained garments after being unwrapped by students in ...

The material used for wrapping the naturally mummified body ... Radiocarbon testing revealed a stunning fact—this was the oldest known mummy in the whole wide world, dating back over 10,700 ...

For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming methods differ, but not all of them are studied equally well.