Scientists are embarking on a mission to unravel the mystery behind dozens of grisly child mummies buried in an underground tomb in Sicily. Remains of some of the 163 kids laid to rest at Capuchin ...

Inside Italy's creepy catacombs lined with 100s of mummies that's a haven for dark tourism. ... Most of the Palermo mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs are the result of natural preservation.

Inside Italy's creepy catacombs lined with 100s of mummies that's a haven for dark tourism WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Sicily is home to an astonishing burial site that is fast becoming a haven for ...

Their subject: "Piraino 1," a male in his 40s who lived at the turn of the 19th century, one of 26 mummies in the Piraino Mother Church's Sepulcher of the Priests in northeastern Sicily, which ...

The mummies’ clothes chronicle a few centuries of fashion choices. You can see virgins wearing flower crowns and slain soldiers in uniform. Some of the bodies still have desiccated skin over ...

Ancient Egyptians weren't the only people fond of mummification; the elite of southern Italy during the 17th and 18th centuries also had a penchant for it. Recently, an international team of ...

Archaeologists have discovered mummies in Italy preserved for two thousand years. The remarkable find was made after an ancient sarcophagus in the ‘tomb of Cerberus’ in Naples was unsealed.

Palermo, Italy, May 12 (EFE). — An endless obituary, a piety expressed in countless quotes from the New Testament on its walls, and a facetoface encounter with 8,000 mummies is the experience ...