5 Baffling Discoveries That Prove History Books Are Wrong
A generation of students found out the hard way that archaeology isn't anywhere near as much fun as Indiana Jones made it look. Still, experts in ...
A generation of students found out the hard way that archaeology isn't anywhere near as much fun as Indiana Jones made it look. Still, experts in ...
AP | Posted 02.19.2012
CHICAGO -- Chicago's Field Museum has opened a rare display of mummies from its own collection. Many of them haven't been seen by the public since the...
AP | Posted 01.30.2012
CAIRO -- A professor from American University in Cairo says discovery of prostate cancer in a 2,200-year-old mummy indicates the disease was caused by...
Margie Goldsmith | Posted 02.22.2012
Drive past herds of lamas and alpacas on your way to Colca Canyon and Cruz del Condor, where Andean condors fly so close you can hear their wings flapping.
Dave Scheidt | Posted 01.09.2012
The world was missing something and I realized it was sexy, forbidden love between a young teen girl and a thousand-year-old decomposing Egyptian mummy prince.
AP | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV | Posted 01.07.2012
MOSCOW — The Russian historian had always been open about his interest in the dead and eagerly described how he loved to rummage through cemeter...
Patch | Posted 10.08.2011
If one self-proclaimed necromancer in Brooklyn has her way, pet cemeteries could become a thing of the past. That's because the sorceress known as Sor...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 11.15.2011
As far as pop culture interest goes, it's hard to beat the massive zombie onslaught. However, mummies may be taking them over for at least this wee...
Zahi Hawass | Posted 05.25.2011
On Friday, January 28, 2011, when the protest marches began in Cairo, I heard that a curfew had been issued that started at 6.00pm on Friday evening u...
Thu Huffington Post | Aixa Velez | Posted 05.25.2011
Whether you're looking to get away for a few hours or a few days, Milwaukee is only about 100 miles from Chicago and now has the world's largest exhib...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
EL MONTE, Calif. — Los Angeles County authorities say a mummified body found under an empty home may be the remains of a man who went missing fi...
AP | DIAA HADID | Posted 05.25.2011
CAIRO — Egyptian archaeologists discovered an intricately carved plaster sarcophagus portraying a wide-eyed woman dressed in a tunic in a newly ...
Posted 05.25.2011
Mummies from Egypt have long fascinated us, as they preserve the secrets of the ancient civilization in enough detail to recreate how life was back th...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
CAIRO — Archeologists have unearthed 57 ancient Egyptian tombs, most of which hold an ornately painted wooden sarcophagus with a mummy inside, E...
AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 05.25.2011
ORLANDO, Fla. — You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies. "We think of i...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Fans of the macabre rejoice: the Mummies of Guanajanto, an amazing collection of mummified bodies of people who died during a cholera outbreak Mexico ...
AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 05.25.2011
CAIRO — A storeroom housing about two dozen ancient Egyptian mummies has been unearthed inside a 2,600-year-old tomb during the latest round of ...
Cracked.com | Posted 04.20.2012