Some Kabayan mummies also feature less fearsome tattoos, such as circles on their wrists thought to be solar discs, or zigzagging lines variously interpreted as lightning or stepped rice fields.

Over the years, peat cutters working the bogs of northwest Europe have uncovered hundreds of mummies. The spongy top layer of a peat bog tends to seal off oxygen from the layers below. A bog's ...

Since most bacteria and fungi cannot live in sub-freezing temperatures, permanent freezing can also produce a mummy. Placing a body in an oxygen-free environment, such as a peat bog, will also ...

100-year-old folklore and pop culture have perpetuated the myth that opening a mummy's tomb leads to certain death. Movie mummies are known for two things: fabulous riches and a nasty curse that ...

Animal mummies are a big part of that pay dirt. "They're really manifestations of daily life," says Egyptologist Salima Ikram. "Pets, food, death, religion. They cover everything the Egyptians ...

Growing up amid the rural peat bogs of Ireland’s Midlands, Luke Casserly says, he found the landscape “boring — a sort of nothingness I wanted to move away from, a sense that there was ...

How did you get involved with the film? When I was 8 years old, I first saw the Boris Karloff Mummy movie [from 1932], and I loved it. Universal had been trying to remake the Karloff movie for ...

Rachel Weisz has revealed the funniest line "she ever had to say" ahead of The Mummy's 25th anniversary. The English actress starred as librarian Evelyn "Eevee" Carnahan in the 1999 adventure ...

The animated comedy centers on three mummies secretly living in an underground city in Ancient Egypt. A twist of fate lands the mummies in modern London where they find themselves on a mission to ...

a troublesome mummy. This time he's a centuries-old Chinese emperor (Jet Li) with a vast undead army. Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Carnahan, Zi Juan.