(CNN) — Stored in a church crypt in a remote Alpine village, a set of unusually well-preserved human remains has long been a rich source of rumor and speculation. Local lore suggested the mummified ...
The curious case of the green mummy has baffled scientists for decades. A teenager, buried in Italy hundreds of years ago, developed a distinctive emerald sheen not usually found on human remains. Now ...
“It’s not your grandfather’s mummy.” That’s the mantra producer James Jacks had on his mind during the filming of The Mummy, the 1999 blockbuster starring Brendan Fraser. It was a pertinent slogan to ...
READING, Pennsylvania -- More than 128 years after he died in a Reading, Pennsylvania, jail, a man who was accidentally mummified and left at a funeral home without any identification will finally get ...
For nearly a century, the “Screaming Woman” mummy found in Luxor, Egypt, haunted viewers with her open-mouth facial expression. Now, new evidence by researchers in Egypt suggest more harrowing details ...
Oetzi the Iceman has a new look. Decades after the famous glacier mummy was discovered in the Italian Alps, scientists have dug back into his DNA to paint a better picture of the ancient hunter. They ...
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A mummy called the ‘air-dried chaplain’ has long been shrouded in mystery. Scientists say they now have answers
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