Preserved by dry, cool air and darkness, the cheetah mummies are offering scientists DNA insights into a lost population and ...

The quality of the preservation was such that his mortal remains emitted a pleasant fragrance 800 years after his entombment.

The mummified remains of a man buried close to a turquoise mine in Chile's Atacama Desert suggest he was a miner who died in ...

Arabian cheetah mummies' DNA reveals that the long-lost population could be closely replaced by a cheetah population in ...

Historical records show cheetahs were present in the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant until very recently, with the last ...

Scientists discovered naturally mummified cheetahs in Saudi desert caves. DNA analysis reveals links to modern populations, ...

A scan revealed that an Egyptian crocodile mummy preserves a fish caught on a bronze hook after more than 2,000 years.

Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a rare burial chamber where several mummies were interred with thin gold foils in place of their tongues, a startling detail that fuses ritual, status, and ...

EGYPT -- Egyptian scientists have digitally unwrapped the mummified remains of the pharaoh Amenhotep I, revealing tantalizing details about the life and death of the Egyptian king for the first time ...

New invention called a Conservation Soft Box protects mummies and bones in museums, preventing moisture, microbes, and ...

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