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 ...
In the late 1980's, perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote Chinese desert. They had long reddish-blond hair, European features and didn't appear to be the ancestors ...
Rumors reached Steve Emslie's ears that fresh penguin poop had been spotted at a remote cape overlooking the Ross Sea in Antarctica. That surprised Emslie, because there weren't supposed to be any ...
Archaeologists in Egypt just unearthed 30 ancient wooden coffins and opened them to reveal perfectly preserved mummies inside. A dig team stumbled upon the sarcophagi in the Asasif necropolis of ...