Looted 2,000-Year-Old Mummy Found On Rubbish Tip
A 2,000-year-old mummy looted and then thrown on a rubbish tip has been saved by antiquities experts in Yemen. Passersby in Sana'a - the country's historic capital in Sana'a Governorate…
A 2,000-year-old mummy looted and then thrown on a rubbish tip has been saved by antiquities experts in Yemen. Passersby in Sana'a - the country's historic capital in Sana'a Governorate…
Astonished police have confiscated an 800-year-old mummy found in the thermal delivery bag of a Just Eat-style biker. The ancient remains were discovered during a routine search of young people…
Experts in Japan have said that what was long thought to be a mummified mermaid is in fact fake after studying it for a year. The "Mermaid Mummy" is owned…
New research has suggested that Otzi the 5,300-year-old prehistoric iceman did not die in autumn before being preserved under winter snow, and instead had died in early spring on a…
A decapitated Egyptian mummy's head discovered in an attic in Kent, in the United Kingdom, has undergone a state-of-the-art CT scan to try and uncover its secrets. The head, which…
The oldest known sample of an E. coli bacteria has been extracted from a 16th-century Italian mummy by an international team of researchers. Modern E. coli bacteria is often found…
This incredibly well-preserved 2,000-year-old body of a resident of Pompeii was found with hair still on the man's skull and part of his ear intact, leading archaeologists to describe it…
This is the 3,600-year-old mummy of a teenager discovered in Egypt with her bridal clothes and jewellery intact despite the tomb having been raided in the past. The discovery took…
A mummy cow has killed a farmer who tried to take her newborn calf away by charging at him and knocking him over - killing him on the spot. The…
This Ancient Rome-era skeleton found by workmen digging up an underground metro station in Rome has been dubbed the 'Pyramid Mummy'. According to reports, the first skeleton, identified as a…