Researchers have discovered the world's first-known pregnant mummy, dating from the first century in Egypt. The find was unexpected, as inscriptions on the mummy's coffin suggested the remains inside ...

This will likely be one of the final nails we place in The Mummy‘s coffin. After consulting a number of film finance sources, Universal‘s Tom Cruise movie stands to lose an estimated $95M off of a ...

Woolly mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats were a fact of life for early humans. But today’s researchers can only hope to find fossils that will shed more light on the existence of these ...

Mummies are bodies of people or animals preserved after death. The process of mummification used by ancient cultures that preserved their dead for hundreds, even thousands, of years differs from more ...

As a historian, I well know that the past has a habit of coming back. And, sometimes, it wreaks havoc on the present. That's the situation now confronting Iran after a mummy was discovered during ...