The date for the earliest mummification of human remains has been pushed back thousands of years thanks to new research that solved a nagging question.

Egypt's border crossings were on high alert Wednesday as authorities searched for the 3,000-year-old artifact, which belonged to King Amenemope and is missing from a Cairo museum.

Police have launched an investigation into the theft of a pharaoh's gold bracelet from the restoration laboratory at Cairo's ...

Ancient Aliens Live is Coming to Springfield Jeremy Rabe got to speak with Giorgio Tsoukalos about the upcoming Ancient ...

World's oldest mummy, dating back 7,000 years, discovered in South America's Chimborazo region. Preserved by smoke and minerals, the well-preserved body challenges Egypt's mummification belief.

Mummies dating back 14,000 years, thought to be among the oldest in the world, have been discovered by archaeologists in southeast Asia. The discovery shows how mummification was an enduring tradition ...

The human remains predate Chile's Chinchorro mummies and the famously preserved pharaohs of ancient Egypt by millennia ...

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi travels the world digging into the origin of Homo sapiens in a five-part BBC series ...

The world’s oldest mummies have been found in burial sites in China and Vietnam, scientists have said. Previously, the oldest ...

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practiced by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and ...