They found two mummies - one an adult woman and the other ... after departure and before the ships became stuck in the pack ice. They were buried on Beechey Island, Nunavut in 1846 and exhumed ...

The first frozen high mountain Inca human sacrifice was found atop a peak in Chile in 1954. "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo," the Mummy of El Plomo Peak became its name, and until Juanita ...

Some of the most spectacular mummies were created accidentally. In 1991, German climbers found a body frozen on top of a glacier near the Austrian-Italian border. Initially, the police and ...

This chilling documentary tells the story of a 4000-year-old mummy that was found frozen in the ice, high in the Alps in 1991 and the number of people who have died around it ...

The world’s first saber-toothed cat mummy has been found in Siberia The world’s first saber-toothed cat mummy has been found in Siberia The Little Ice Age was brutal. How did people survive?

In 1991, a body was found frozen in the ice high in the Alps. It was the oldest naturally preserved mummy ever found and created a media sensation. The corpse was even given a name: Oetzi ...