The remains, known as the Spirit Cave Mummy, were first excavated in 1940 and initially ... The study, led by archaeologist ...

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A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

Now, groundbreaking research published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage has finally unraveled the chemical mystery behind this extraordinary preservation phenomenon. The teenage boy's remains, ...

The green mummified remains of a teenager buried in Italy 200 to 400 years ago have given us new insights into the ...

Forty-one years ago, on this day (), India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was killed as she stepped out of her New Delhi ...

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Archaeologists discovers 13 wooden coffins in the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. GM lays off more than 1,700 at ...

The skeletons of the duck-billed dinosaurs, Edmontosaurus Annectens – which lived more than 66 million years ago in the late ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

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