Tagged: mummy

A re-examination of the last meal of an Early Iron Age Denmark bog body called Tollund Man has revealed new details about his final hours. According to findings published Wednesday in the journal Antiquity, 12 to 24 hours before Tollund Man was killed he ate...

Scholars excited by depiction of actual objects on the body of a 3,000-year-old woman. A mummy from ancient Egypt was heavily tattooed with sacred symbols, which may have served to advertise and enhance the religious powers of the woman who received them more than 3,000...

The sequencing of a 10,600-year-old genome has settled a lengthy legal dispute over who should own the oldest mummy in North America — and given scientists a rare insight into early inhabitants of the Americas. The controversy centred on the ‘Spirit Cave Mummy’, a human...

A mummy found at a site off the coast of Scotland consists of remains from at least three individuals. Human skeletons dating from 1400–1100 BC were previously unearthed at the Cladh Hallan settlement. A male skeleton was identified as a composite of multiple individuals on...

The unique carapace was probably designed to support the deceased person’s bid for immortality. Ancient people repaired a damaged mummy by encasing it in a head-to-toe mud shell — a treatment that would have been intended to ease the individual’s entrance to the afterlife. The...

Scientists have identified the oldest known manual on mummification. Scientists have found an ancient Egyptian instruction manual for embalming the faces of the dead. The manual was found within a 3,500-year-old medical manuscript known as the Papyrus Louvre-Carlsberg. According to a University of Copenhagen statement...

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a mummy in one of two previously unexplored tombs across the Nile from the southern city of Luxor, the antiquities ministry said Saturday. The tombs were found in the 1990s by German archaeologist Frederica Kampp, though she had only reached the entrance gate...

EGYPT archaeologists uncovered a “scary” mummy believed to be almost 4,000 years old while excavating a burial chamber – and the remains left bone experts baffled. The discovery was made by archaeologist Dr Martina Bardonova in Aswan, a city with historical importance that sits on the Nile....

A MYSTERIOUS three-fingered “alien mummy” discovered in Peru could actually be a new species of human, a researcher has claimed. New DNA and carbon dating tests on one of several strange mummies dug up by grave robbers in Nazca, Peru, reveal she could be 1,800...

Experts in the U.K. have found the world’s oldest figurative tattoos on two ancient Egyptian mummies, one of which is the oldest tattooed female ever discovered. The mummies, which date back to between 3351 B.C. and 3017 B.C., are in the collection of the British...