In a recent study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Dr. Bernardo Arriaza argues that the practice of ...
The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...
Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for animals — have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt. The workshops date back around 2,300 years and were in use between the late ...
In honor of the "Mummies of the World" exhibit on display Feb. 10-Sept. 2 at the Arizona Science Center in Phoenix, here are answers to five top questions about mummies. When most people think of ...
A team of researchers has recreated one of the scents used in the mummification of an important Egyptian woman more than 3500 years ago. In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ...
Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, reportedly had a bottle of pills next to her when the couple were found dead in their Santa Fe home — but did the medication contribute to her body’s state of ...
A team of international researchers from Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich and the University of Tübingen is unvailing the secrets of ancient Egyptian embalming. Vessels from an ancient ...
Egyptians may not have used mummification to preserve the body at all, some scientists say. They could've wanted to turn royal remains into godly statues — preservation was a perk, they said.
Details continue to emerge regarding the deaths of actor Gene Hackman, 95, and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, 65, at the couple’s home in Santa Fe, N.M. The bodies were discovered by a maintenance worker on ...
Researchers have utilized a new non-invasive paleoproteomic approach to extract ancient proteins from a 4000-year-old Egyptian mummy. The findings suggest the technique could be used to analyze ...
Kenady Michaelis, 11, helped her group wrap a chicken with long strips of paper as part of the class’ unit on ancient Egypt. The Trinity Episcopal School sixth-graders turned their Cornish chickens ...
Centuries after they were painstakingly prepared for death, mummies still produce an odour described as woody, spicy and sweet. But unfortunately for the Egyptians, who believed a 'good' smell after ...
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