The 1999 action adventure movie The Mummy (streaming now on Peacocks) takes viewers back to 1290 BC, in Egypt, where the high priest Imhotep is gambling on love, with death on the line. When Imhotep ...

For thousands of years, ancient Egyptians mummified their dead in the search for eternal life. Now, researchers have used chemistry and an unusual collection of jars to figure out how they did it.

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DNA tests on British prehistoric mummies revealed they were made of body parts from several different people, arranged to look like one person. The four bodies discovered in 2001 on South Uist, in ...

Inscribed ceramic vessels left behind in an Egyptian subterranean embalming structure from the 26th Dynasty of ancient Egypt offer new clues as to how the dead were preserved, and the role trade ...

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Scientists are using high-tech tools to help solve the mystery of how the Canary Islands came to be inhabited. This mummy once rested in a fabled Tenerife cave whose location was lost to history, ...

About 66 million years ago, a herd of herbivorous dinosaurs succumbed to drought – tragically, just hours or days before heavy rains fell. We know this because they left some of the most incredibly ...

Cladh Hallan holds a unique distinction; it is the only place in Great Britain where prehistoric mummies have been unearthed. Four have been found at the site dating back to 1000 BC or earlier, but ...