While excavating burials of hunter-gatherers in a cave in Vietnam, archaeologist Hsiao-chun Hung of the Australian National University wondered how to explain the flexed, folded, and contorted ...

Bones and skulls visible in the back seat of a car near an abandoned cemetery on Philadelphia's outskirts led police to a basement filled with body parts, which authorities say were hoarded by a man ...

Bones and skulls visible in the back seat of a car near an abandoned cemetery on Philadelphia’s outskirts led police to a basement filled with body parts, which authorities say were hoarded by a man ...

Although tens of millions of Egyptians were mummified over thousands of years, very few mummies remain today. Tomb robbing, medical cannibalism in Europe, and the use of mummified remains in pigments ...

Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...

A mother and son were discovered mummified inside a Brooklyn apartment on Wednesday afternoon — after residents reported a troubling smell wafting through the building for days, according to sources ...

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office has requested assistance in identifying a body found in the Santa Clara River bottom in 2022. Sheriff’s investigators have asked the public to help identify John ...

An adolescent boy buried around three centuries ago in a copper box in northern Italy has become the only near-complete green mummy ever known. Other ancient body parts have been partially mummified ...

Researchers have unearthed two dinosaur “mummies” in Wyoming—and the fossils within shed light on what the duck-billed creatures would have looked like 66 million years ago. The dinos are a pair of ...

Researchers have unearthed a spooky pair of dinosaur mummies that appear to have been preserved in an unexpected way. These dinosaur remains are different from the wrapped mummies of Egypt or natural ...