This photo shows a mummy of a middle-aged man from over 9,000 years ago found at an archaeological site in southern China. (Photo courtesy of the international research team on smoke-dried ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Wanyue Zhao and her colleagues used volatile organic compounds (VOCs) to analyze the composition of scents given off by mummies ...

CAIRO - Egypt's most famous pharaoh, King Tutankhamun, was a frail boy who suffered from a cleft palate and club foot. He died of complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, and his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The remains of one of the four children found by archeologists, buried in the Inca sanctuary of Pachacamac, in the coastal desert ...

Two naturally mummified individuals buried roughly 7,000 years ago in a Libyan rock shelter have yielded ancient genomes that reveal a previously unknown, long-isolated North African lineage. The ...

CAIRO — Egypt has unveiled several discoveries near the famed city of Luxor, including ancient rock-cut tombs and burial shafts dating back 3,600 years. They were unearthed at the causeway of Pharaoh ...