Workers installing new gas lines outside Lima, Peru uncovered eight mummies and objects dating back to pre-Inca times last week. Like an onion with several layers, the capital region of Peru has ...

While installing new gas lines just beneath the busy streets of Lima, Peru, utility workers unearthed an unexpected archaeological bounty: eight pre-Inca mummies and a wealth of artifacts.

Peruvian workers expanding gas lines were shocked when they dug up eight mummies on the side of the road in Lima. Surrounded by chicken restaurants near the road leading to Peru's sole nuclear ...

Archaeology students discovered the mummy during a dig in Lima Archaeologists in Peru conducting a dig at the site of a rubbish dump in the capital Lima have found a mummy they think is around ...

Scientists were able to establish many of the El Plomo mummy's vital statistics: he was male, 8 or 9 years old, type O blood, and presumably from a wealthy family due to his portly physique.

The mummified remains of a man bound in the fetal position were recently uncovered ... Peruvian mummies, Socha said. The mythology for people from the mountainous regions of Peru dictated that ...

Over the years, peat cutters working the bogs of northwest Europe have uncovered hundreds of mummies. The spongy top layer of a peat bog tends to seal off oxygen from the layers below. A bog's ...

The fires have left at least 15 dead and more than 3,000 hectares of cultivated land and natural areas scorched, authorities ...

Some of the earliest evidence of the drugs can be found in tissue samples of Chilean mummies, dated to around 1,000 BCE, though the practice is likely even older than that. However, there’s much ...

Eleven years later, in 2004, a second Salt Man was found just 50 feet from where Salt Man 1’s remains were uncovered. In 2005, two more mummies – including the remains of a 16-year-old boy ...

In South Carolina’s Lowcountry, artists, farmers and designers are writing a new chapter in indigo’s rich and tangled history ...