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 ...

Ancient Egyptians certainly knew how to preserve a human body. Sadly, few guides exist explaining the mummification process Ancient Egyptians used. As such, a recent discovery is more than just a cool ...

Mummification is usually associated with the age of Pharaohs, with the practice largely believed to have first arisen around 2200 BCE and hit its peak around 1000 BCE. But processes this complex don't ...

The discovery of an unusual set of ceramic vessels has shed new light on the mummification process in ancient Egypt, according to a new study. Around 2,500 years old, the 31 jars were discovered in an ...

Using two legs from a cadaver, researchers in Switzerland baked one in an oven and covered the other in a salt solution to try to re-create ancient mummification. One method was successful. Freelancer ...

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 ...

A team of paleopathologists and medical experts from Germany, the U.S. and Italy has found that anemia was common in ancient Egyptian children who had been mummified. In their study, reported in the ...

Mummification of the dead probably was more common in prehistory than previously known. This discovery is made at the hunter-gatherer burial sites in the Sado Valley in Portugal, dating to 8,000 years ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers in the Atacama Desert may have begun mummifying their dead as a form of “art therapy” to help them process their grief following the loss of a loved one. More specifically, ...

Ancient Egyptians certainly knew how to preserve a human body. Sadly, few guides exist explaining the mummification process Ancient Egyptians used. As such, a recent discovery is more than just a cool ...