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Four mummified children have been discovered in Peru — and they are believed to be at least 1,000 years old. The mummies were found in what is now one of the oldest neighborhoods in Lima, in what was ...

Archaeologists in Peru unearthed a trove of ancient mummies, including a number of infants and babies. R. Dziubińska via Science in Poland More than 900 years ago, 22 people were wrapped in fabric and ...

Greenlandic mummy of a six-month-old Inuit boy found in 1972 in Qilakitsoq, an important archaeological site in Greenland. (Choffa/Wikimedia Commons) COPENHAGEN, Denmark (CN) — After a nearly 100-year ...

Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities has announced a breathtaking find at the Tuna el‑Gebel necropolis in Minya: 40 perfectly preserved mummies — including 10 children — discovered inside ancient rock‑cut ...

Speckled with lesions across its dried, ghastly face, the nearly 500-year-old child mummy buried in a church in Naples, Italy, was long thought to be the earliest evidence of smallpox during the ...

Mummies of the World begins with two striking displays: a mummified howler monkey from the Gran Chaco plain of Argentina draped in a feather skirt and collar, and a child mummy from Egypt, who, ...

It was a she – and there is no hint that she died of a disease. An analysis of the small mummy – a longtime part of Buffalo’s science collections – that was subjected to high-tech testing by ...

More than 900 years ago, 22 people were wrapped in fabric and buried in Peru. Now, archaeologists have discovered their mummies — and the treasures they took with them to the grave. Researchers from ...