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 ...

This ancient crocodile never finished its last meal. More than 2,000 years after it died, researchers can still make out a small fish inside its stomach—its body intact, still caught on a bronze hook.

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 ...

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 ...

Previous guidance recommended people walk at least 10,000 steps a day. A new study suggests that walking just 4,000 steps a day, rather than the more widely recommended 10,000 steps a day, could be ...

A newly translated papyrus from ancient Egypt dating back 3,500 years provides a rare insight into Egyptian embalming techniques. The ancient medical text details a procedure never identified before ...

As someone who lives for the unexpected, unique, and downright weird, it only took about five seconds for the absolute craziness of Baby Steps to steal my heart. This spiritual successor to ...

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 ...

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 ...