Gold miners are finding fossils and mummified animals from the Ice Age. Now paleontologists have an ancient wolf pup, a baby ...

Animal mummies are a big part of ... The more attractive the package, Ikram has discovered, the greater the chance of a scam. To find out how the ancient embalmers worked—a subject on which ...

What do you think of when you think about ancient Egyptian mummies? Perhaps your mind takes you back to a school trip to the museum, when you came face to face with a mummified person inside a ...

A large cache of mummified animals found in an ancient Egyptian necropolis have been displayed for the first time near the capital Cairo. Archaeologists discovered the trove last year near the ...

Inside were poorly-preserved mummies ... Ancient Egyptians believed that Osiris was lord of the underworld and judge of the dead. Lost Egyptian artefact found in cigar box Egyptian mummified ...

The ancient Egyptians are known for ... wrote in her book "Tutankhamun's Tomb: The Thrill of Discovery" (Met Publications, 2006). Animal mummies were sometimes included in burials.

But this workshop, discovered ... ancient texts long had been translated as the resins frankincense or myrrh. This study revealed it as a mixture of cedar oil, juniper and cypress oil, and animal ...

The archaeological area of Saqqara, an ancient burial ground in the ... in which a large number of animal mummies were found. Sources revealed to Al-Watan, the local newspaper, that the discovery ...

Previously, only five wooly rhinoceros remains with soft tissue had been found in Yakutia ... to study the animal’s diet, the diet of its prey, and even ancient viruses. And these two specimens ...

Animal mummies provide a snapshot of the natural world, taken between approximately 750BC and AD250. Some of these mummified species are no longer found in Egypt. For example, ancient Egyptians ...