The remains — consisting of the animal’s upper torso, forward legs and head — were found encased in a chunk of ice by researchers ... house cat today. “The mummy body is covered with ...

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 ...

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 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?

Not to put too fine a point on it, a mummy is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin, but ...

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 site also featured four fully intact limestone sarcophagi. Archaeologists found a total of 52 mummies, which they dated to the Ptolemaic era, as part of the discovery. The archaeologists ...

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 ...