A man whose mummified body was found in a river six years ago died from a ‘violent assault’, it has finally been determined.

The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright macabre. Among these is "mumia"—a medicinal substance derived from mummified ...

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You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. New research on the mysterious remains of mummified baboons, found far from their natural habitat over ...

Inside the western corridor of Egypt's Bent Pyramid, archaeologist Ahmed Fakhry documented a plastered wooden box containing ...

Seven mummified cheetahs and the remains of dozens more were found in caves in northern Saudi Arabia. A.A. Boug et al., Communications Earth & Environment, 2026 Asiatic cheetahs once roamed the land ...

Scientists have uncovered the mummified remains of cheetahs from caves in northern Saudi Arabia. The remains range from 130 years old to over 1,800 years old. Researchers excavated seven mummies along ...

Researchers in Egypt uncovered 2,000 mummified ram heads in a temple in the ancient city of Abydos, officials said. Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (Egypt) A team of researchers discovered 2,000 ...

DNA analysis of mummified poop reveals two pre-Columbian Caribbean cultures ate a wide variety of plants, like maize, sweet potato, and peanuts—and tobacco and cotton traces were detected too, ...

Scientists have uncovered 13 mummified cadavers of mice from the summits of Andean volcanoes that stretch nearly 4 miles above sea level. Analyses of the mummies, combined with the capture of live ...

Your lungs are working overtime right now — probably without you even thinking about it. But the system powering every single breath you take? It’s nearly 290 million years old. A jaw-dropping fossil ...

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