For centuries, four mummified individuals from the Colombian Andes lay in museums, their faces sealed under ornate masks. And I mean sealed shut. Now, thanks to cutting-edge digital reconstruction, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient Egyptians buried mummies on top of one another when tombs began running out of space, according to new research.

For the deceased of Roman-era Egypt, Greek literature may have offered a cheat code to a more comfortable afterlife. By Franz Lidz Archaeologists working in Egypt have discovered a remarkable ...

In the southeastern section of the chamber, Molinero Polo says four mummies and one mummified dog were buried on top of one another in the Ptolemaic Period. Detail of superposition and spatial ...