Police found the mummified body of a woman that had been in a home, believed to have been burglarized, for months.

CAIRO — Egyptian scientists have unwrapped a 3,500-year-old royal mummy without peeling away a single layer of embalming linen. Instead, they used advanced X-ray technology and computerized tomography ...

CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO (KFOX14/CBS4) — Authorities in Ciudad Juárez discovered a mummified body while searching for a missing ...

For centuries, many cultures around the world embalmed their dead, often for religious reasons. Accordingly, embalming methods differ, but not all of them are studied equally well. In a first report ...

Scientists who examined a pregnant mummy explained why they think no others had been found. It might have to do with a chemical reaction that dissolves the bones of unborn children. It makes them ...

In the 19th century, preserved bodies were not only ceremonially unveiled; owning one became a status symbol. “It would be ...

Scientists have managed a feat they once thought impossible: peering beneath the layers of linen that once swathed the mummy of King Amenhotep I. And they didn’t even have to unwrap him at all.