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 - ...

In a recent study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Dr. Bernardo Arriaza argues that the practice of ...

What exactly wafts out from those ancient sarcophagi? Is it the musty scent of dust, the sharp edge of decay — or something far more surprising? In ancient Egypt, scent played a crucial role in ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Life is good on Earth-828 at the start of The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Reed Richards provides ...

Excerpted from Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations by Sam Kean. Copyright ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For the first time, paleontologists have successfully reconstructed ...

A pair of Edmontosaurus specimens found in a Wyoming dig help researchers to understand the process that led them to be mummified. By Jack Tamisiea During a 1908 dig in Wyoming, the fossil hunter ...

Governor Greg Abbott has given TXDoT 30 days to remove crosswalks with political messages, threatening to withhold road funding from non-compliant cities. In Dallas' "gayborhood," Oak Lawn United ...

Are you constantly looking at your watch or phone to check your step count as you strive to hit 10,000 steps a day? Well, a new Mass General Brigham study shows that only 4,000 steps one or two days a ...

An overwhelming majority of the medical schools in the United States require less than 20 hours of education in nutrition in four years of training, while courses in lifestyle and root-cause medicine ...

Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a new ...