The mummies were created by the people of the Chinchorro culture, a fishing community who lived in what is now Chile and Southern Peru from 5,000 BC to 500 BC.They carefully prepared their dead by ...

The oldest mummy is the Hunchback, which was discovered in 1647 in a 14th century tomb located below the Chapel of the Rosary. The other mummies date back to the 18th and 19th centuries.

Researchers made several other observations during their analysis of the 21 ancient mummies. One individual showed signs of anemia not only in the skull, but in the face and body, a phenomenon not ...

In Siciliy, there's a very spooky mummy of a girl who died in 1920. Occassionally, she can be seen to open and close her eyes. Italian researchers now say ...

Some Of The Oldest-Ever Tattoos Found On Egyptian Mummies : The Two-Way Thanks to new technology, ... "It's interesting, it must be this human phenomenon to want to permanently modify your body.

From a growing evidence base of mummies, researchers are now concluding that atherosclerosis may have been common in people who lived in premodern times. A new study presented at the ACC in San ...

Italy's most beautiful village has been officially chosen: the title goes to tiny Venzone in the north-east of the country. Home to around 2,000 people, the hamlet is known for its lavender, historic ...

The mystery surrounding the discovery of several "alien mummies" in Peru has taken another shocking turn as scientists claim to have discovered a fetus inside the womb of one of the "corpses". The ...

The remains of a mysterious mummy nicknamed the “air-dried chaplain” were stored in the crypt of St. Thomas am Blasenstein, a church in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.

In Scotland, Two Mix-and-Match Mummies Contain Parts of Six Corpses 3,000 year old bodies discovered in a bog turned out not to be two bodies at all. The skeletons are stitched together from the ...

Italy's most beautiful village has been officially chosen: the title goes to tiny Venzone in the north-east of the country. Home to around 2,000 people, the hamlet is known for its lavender, historic ...