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

The discovery was confirmed; these were the remains of a pre-Inca mummy, preserved for nearly 1,000 years beneath the ...

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

The mummy had gone unnoticed despite urban development in a district where agricultural fields have been converted into ...

There is still a long way to go, but the oldest mummy ever discovered is helping to shed some light, and even settle a legal ...

The environment along Peru’s coastline often naturally mummifies remains. Workers laying new natural gas pipeline in Lima, ...

Utility workers in Lima, Peru, recently uncovered a 1,000-year-old mummy predating the Inca Empire. The mummy likely belongs to the Chancay culture that existed from 1000 to 1470 A.D. (Source: The Ass ...

GAS workers have discovered a 1,000-year-old mummy just a metre below the surface of the Earth during a routine pipe ...

The gas workers in Peru discovered a mummy dated to a thousand years old during the time of pipe installation in Lima. The ...

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

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

An Egyptian genome has finally been unraveled, thanks to a sample from an at least 4,500 year-old mummy dating back to the ...