mummies

As It Happens5:53These ancient crocodile mummies are so well-preserved, they almost look aliveBea De Cupere was blown away the first time she laid eyes on the 10 mummified crocodiles recently discovered in an ancient Egyptian tomb.But it…

<!-- -->The mummies were discovered in the Quesna cemetery.Several mummies with golden tongues have been discovered in Egypt during an archaeological mission in Quesna cemetery. The tombs in the area date back to different periods of…

Archaeologists working near Cairo have uncovered hundreds of ancient Egyptian coffins and bronze statues of deities.The discovery at a cemetery in Saqqara contained statues of the gods Anubis, Amun, Min, Osiris, Isis, Nefertum, Bastet and…

<!-- -->The tiny skeletons, wrapped tightly in cloth, were found in the grave of a dead nobleman.Lima: Six mummified children thought to have been sacrificed hundreds of years ago, apparently to accompany a dead nobleman to the…

New techniques in ancient DNA analysis are providing more and more tantalizing details about prehistory, including some of the latest scientific discoveries in the past week.I'm Katie Hunt, standing in for Ashley Strickland, who's on…

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Written by Krista Langlois In the 1970s, hunters stumbled upon eight 500-year-old bodies preserved by the Arctic climate near Qilakitsoq, an abandoned Inuit settlement in northwest Greenland. Later, when scientists photographed…