November 2025 marks 100 years since archaeologists first examined Tutankhamun 's mummified remains. What followed wasn't ...
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A week ago, archaeologists announced that they had found the tomb of ancient Egyptian King Thutmose II near the Valley of the Kings in West Luxor. Now, the expert behind the discovery believes he ...
(LONDON) — Archaeologists have discovered a 1,000-year-old mummy — believed to be of an adult individual — in Peru’s capital, Lima. The mummy, which was discovered at the Huaca Pucllana archaeological ...
In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...
In Spain, the Cave of the Bats, Albuñol, held a major secret: bowstrings discovered in the 19th century predate those used by ...
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“After all, this was a child, a human being, not just an archaeological artifact.” The Uan Muhuggiag mummy has remained largely out of the public eye, like so much of Libya’s archaeological wealth.
The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...
The incredibly preserved mummified body of a teenage girl ritualistically killed an estimated 500 years ago goes by many names in modern culture: Inca Maiden, La Doncella, and Llullaillaco Maiden to ...
In the late 1940s, the Soviet Archaeology Institute dispatched Sergei Rudenko to explore burial mounds 3,000 miles away in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia. The adventure did not disappoint.
A viral TikTok from a true-crime comedy podcast account resurfaced a mummy hoax. In the early 2000s, a mummy involved in an international dispute was found to be a fake. Further examination linked the ...