Most Inca mummies were arranged in the familiar fetal position and were either wrapped in leather or cloth, or placed in baskets or under huge ceramic jars. These "mummy bundles" were often ...

Finally, rouge and other paints were applied. The last step was to coat the mummy in warm resin and wrap it from head to foot in layer after layer of linen strips. About 150 yards—the length of ...

A gazelle wrapped in a tattered mat of papyrus, so thoroughly flattened by mummification that Ikram named it Roadkill. A 17-foot, knobby-backed crocodile, buried with baby croc mummies in its mouth.

Witnesses took to social media today to report exactly this, saying that a mystery walker covered a solid six kilometres, from Panchang Bedena to Sungai Besar town, fully bundled ...

Archaeologists discovered more than a dozen mummies older than 2,000 years with tongues made from golden amulets. Ancient Egyptians’ idea behind the golden tongues was that they would help the ...

‘It’s like a utopia’: Young people in China are escaping the rat race by fleeing to ‘youth retirement villages’ — mirroring quiet quitting in America. Are young adults being pushed too ...

When you think of a mummy, you might think of a slow-moving dude wrapped in bandages. That isn’t always the case, though. Just look at The Mummy. Specifically, the 1999 film, which is a favorite ...

But in the 19th and early 20th centuries, mummies were sold to tourists, scientists or collectors. Sellers put well-wrapped mummies into coffins from different tombs to encourage people to buy them.

In this nail-biting game of Mummies Know Best, can Dec come back from last week's loss or will this game be all wrapped up by Ant? You already know that we're the only show on telly where you don ...