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An archaeological site that used to be a garbage dump has revealed the extraordinarily preserved mummy of an elite woman from the ancient Caral civilization of Peru. The woman was buried with luxury ...

“After all, this was a child, a human being, not just an archaeological artifact.” The Uan Muhuggiag mummy has remained largely out of the public eye, like so much of Libya’s archaeological wealth.

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely 20 inches from the surface.

Peruvian workers clearing the way for new gas pipes stumbled across a mummy that archaeologists have since determined to be approximately 1,000 years old. The mummified remains were discovered not ...

In the late 1940s, the Soviet Archaeology Institute dispatched Sergei Rudenko to explore burial mounds 3,000 miles away in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia. The adventure did not disappoint.

WARSAW, POLAND—Live Science reports that an international team of researchers has finally resolved the mystery surrounding a controversial Egyptian mummified person. The body of the individual, ...

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