The Mysteries of the Mummies at Museo Leymebamba: Hundreds of mummies with oddly “harmed” faces
IN A CLIMATE-CONTROLLED ROOM IN Leymebamba, Peru, sit more than 200 mummies, some staring right at you with disturbingly well-preserved expressions of fear and agony. The Museo…
Find out what happened to “Noah,” a skeleton that dates back 6,500 years and survived the Great Flood
Scientists at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia are quite literally cleaning the skeletons out of their closets. Museum staff recently rediscovered a 6,500-year-old human skeleton that’s been…
A 4,000-year-old mother and child’s skeleton was discovered gripped in each other’s dying arms in “China’s Pompeii”
The loving embrace of a mother and her child lasts for 4,000 years, Chinese archaeologists reported after finding their interlocked skeletons.Archaeologists unearthed proof of a mother’s love…
The amazing 900-year-old mummy of a Russian “polar princess” discovered in the Arctic Circle
¥ The mummy of a ‘polar princess’ has been found close to the Arctic Circle, her long eyelashes and hair still intact after 900 years. Her haunting…
“Uncovering the mysteries” of the 1000-year-old Cat and Baby Mummy on display in Turkey’s Aksaray Museum
The museum at Aksaray, the gateway of Turkey’s Cappadocia region to the West, holds a very special mummy section that displays as many as 13 local mummies…
First-ever discovery of a pregnant Ancient Egyptian mummy in a “shocking” world
A team of Polish scientists say they have discovered the only known example of an embalmed pregnant Egyptian mummy. The discovery was made by researchers at the Warsaw…
Researchers are astounded to discover 10,000-year-old human bones in a Mexican underwater cave, “indicating ancient migrations”
In May last year, archaeologists made the exciting announcement that a complete Ice Age skeleton had been found in an underwater cave in Tulum, Mexico. Since then,…
Mysterious mummies of man and his slaves discovered in Pompeii, reveal “Vesuvius eruption”
When Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D., a wealthy man of 30 or 40 and a younger enslaved man survived the immediate impact, only to die in…
“Uncover the mysteries” of Palermo’s Capuchin Catacombs and their most well-known Mummy.
The first-ever comprehensive study of mummified children in Sicily’s famous Capuchin Catacombs is being led by Staffordshire University. Dr. Kirsty Squires, Associate Professor of Bioarchaeology, and her…
“Astonished” to see In London, a 500-year-old skeleton wearing thigh-high leather boots has been discovered.
Leather was a highly-valuable material during the Tudor era in the U.K., which makes this discovery all the more unusual. The skeleton of a man that is…