But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often ... grow where there is no water. Mummies can be dried in the sun, with ...

When alive, the mummified crocodiles ranged in size ... Linen that once wrapped the mummies had long been consumed by insects. Examining the remains, team members were surprised they did not ...

This mummified boy, approximately one-year-old, was found in the same grave. He, too, is believed to have been a sacrificial victim who was buried alive. This mummy of a woman, who was ...

Among these is "mumia"—a medicinal substance derived from mummified human remains. From the 12th to the 17th century, physicians across Europe prescribed powdered mummy as a cure-all for ...

Scientists on a mission to prove Peruvian mummies are aliens have made a new ... having once been alive,' Dr Zalce said. Dr Zalce told DailyMail.com that he has analyzed 21 of the strange bodies ...

The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

An Anglican church in Dublin has been unable to reopen a historic crypt to the public since the remains of mummified bodies ...

But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually smell pretty good. “In films and books, terrible things happen to those ...

Mummy aroma may provide insight into social class and historical period, according to a team of trained mummy sniffers ...

Mummies have been cast by popular culture and ... but a real human who was once alive and had a very specific belief about how her body should be treated after death." It has not been lost on ...