The temperature variation on the Moon, fluctuating up to 127°C (260°F) during the day to -173°C (-280°F) at night, would also have an effect on your body, potentially breaking it apart as you freeze ...

Every year brings new discoveries from ancient Egypt and 2024 was no exception. In this countdown, Live Science takes a look ...

Old Egyptian Mummy With ‘Black Death’ DNA, May Have Spread by Fleas on Nile Rats Researchers have finally managed to confirm ...

Samples of 'The Black Death', which wiped out 50 million people in medieval times, were found in an Egyptian mummy ...

Researchers have uncovered the oldest confirmed case of the plague outside Eurasia in an ancient Egyptian mummy.

More archeological excavation is needed to clarify exactly what this pit was used for. “Roman society was full of ...

Getty Images Analysis of the mummy’s bone tissue revealed traces ... had reached an advanced stage when the victim perished, IFL Science reported. However, it’s unclear if this was an isolated ...

Most notably, as IFL Science reports, a 5,000-year-old skeleton in Russia had clearly perished from one of the most fatal diseases in history. And so did the Egyptian mummy researchers recently ...

As IFL Science notes, a research team in 2004 found ... The discovery of bubonic plague remnants in mummy DNA, however, appears to finally provide proof of its existence in ancient Egypt.

The case of Peru's mysterious 'alien mummies' continues to deepen after the unveiling of two new creatures named Paloma and Antonio. The corpses were said to have been found in the Nazca desert ...

The oldest confirmed case of the plague outside of Eurasia has been detected in an ancient Egyptian mummy. Dating back to around 3,290 years ago, the embalmed remains belong to a male individual ...