Goosebumps, the horror franchise from the classic books by R.L. Stine, is still burned in readers’ memories. Some stand out ...

A mummy, to put it bluntly, is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin, but sometimes organs ...

While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy makers, they were far from the first. A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now ...

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 ...

Located at Tuna al-Gebel in central Egypt, the cemetery went back to the New Kingdom (circa 1550 to 1070 B.C.) and contained mummies ... were able to recover the “Book of the Dead” and ...