Back in ancient times, the world of medicine was filled with odd remedies and strange cures that claimed to tackle […] ...

The excavation of two Egyptian tombs dating to the Roman period, between 29 B.C.E. and 641 C.E., just unveiled a wealth of ...

2,000 year old mummies have been unearthed as more than a dozen found with rare tongues made from golden amulets.

Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...

Warren Dawson have written a very interesting and useful book on mummies, which appears in a ... besides a sketch of the history of the practice in Egypt which, being written by the chief ...

After being over the moon at the discovery, Egyptologists were left in complete shock after opening a lost pyramid for the ...

Ancient Egyptians mummified baboons for religious purposes, but new research reveals they were likely raised in captivity ...

The oldest known tattoos were found on remains of a Neolithic man who lived in the Italian Alps around 3,000 B.C. Many mummies from ancient Egypt also have tattoos, as do remains from cultures ...

Golden tongues are rarely found in ancient Egyptian tombs ... these were placed within the mummy wrappings over the heart of the deceased, , to aid the journey into the afterlife.

After illuminating the mummies with laser-stimulated fluorescence ... at the Tennessee Division of Archaeology who specializes in ancient tattoos and was not involved in the study.

The intricate details of tattoos inked more than 1200 years ago have been made visible by scanning South American mummies with lasers ... “So, to some extent, ancient Chancay tattoos show ...