Archaeologists in Portugal just identified the world's oldest mummies — thanks to a few undeveloped rolls of 60-year-old film ...

A mummy was discovered by utility workers in Peru, and it is believed to have belonged to an adolescent from a pre-Inca ...

A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking ...

The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...

Here on Short Wave, we're getting into the Halloween spirit a little early with a look at the world's oldest mummies. They're found in modern-day northern Chile. The mummies are well-preserved, so ...

Inside, they found what Hawass said was the oldest non-royal mummy ever discovered in Egypt. It was also the oldest mummy wrapped in gold leaf ever found in the country, he added.

Archeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest mummy ever found in Egypt. The 4,300-year-old mummy was a rich, important 35-year-old man called Djed Sepsh, archaeologist Zahi Hawass, Egypt ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered a Pharaonic tomb near the capital, Cairo, containing what may be the oldest and “most complete” mummy yet to be discovered in the country. The 4,300-year ...

The Oldest Mummy. Share full article. From The London Telegraph. Dec. 8, 1900; Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from December 8, 1900, Section ...