Mummification is among the best-known religious practices of the ancient Egyptians, yet apart from a few textual descriptions and tomb paintings, very little is known about the facilities where this ...

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The Chinchorro began mummifying their dead well before the Egyptians immortalized the practice. However, the Chinchorro ...

The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

Discoveries ranging from the oldest known example of human mummification to first deliberate use of fire by people were made ...

Cinnamon is known as the world's oldest spice. Learn about Cinnamon's 4,000-year journey from ancient Egyptian rituals to ...

This ancient crocodile never finished its last meal. More than 2,000 years after it died, researchers can still make out a small fish inside its stomach—its body intact, still caught on a bronze hook.

The continent has a vast history spanning thousands of years, and one place has fended off invaders for the most part.

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In a new paper in Science, experts from the University of Chicago describe steps that took place some 66 million years ago to transform carcasses of a duck-billed dinosaur, Edmontosaurus annectens, ...