CHICAGO (CBS) -- Just in time for Halloween, scientists at the Field Museum of Natural History are peeling back the wrappings of several Egyptian mummies—without disrupting their eternal slumber. The ...

The Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology returned five Greenlandic Inuit mummies to Denmark last week, five years after their repatriation was first requested by Danish authorities. The ...

The National Institute of Anthropology and History has accused the city of Guanajuato of mishandling a mummified body during museum renovations. The arm of one of the mummies was detached during ...

A Jan. 23 Facebook post post (direct link, archived link) claims the British Museum has implemented a new rule about the way it discusses mummies. “The British Museum has tragically succumbed to ...

2,500-year-old remains to go on tour in U.S. CHICAGO – Not until the lid was off the wood coffin – exposing the 2,500-year-old mummified remains of a 14-year-old Egyptian boy – could J.P. Brown relax.

Talk about an identity crisis. Doctors now say that a 2,000 year−old Egyptian mummy in the Brooklyn Museum — thought to be Lady Hor — is actually a “he.” A CT scan last week determined the mummy’s ...

Mexico City — Mexico's federal archaeology agency on Monday accused the conservative-governed city of Guanajuato of mistreating one of the country's famous mummified 19th century bodies. The National ...