Archaeologists have found a pre-Hispanic mummy surrounded by coca leaves on top of a hill in Peru's capital next to the practice field of a professional soccer club. A team from The Associated Press ...

A bacterium found in the tooth of a 700-year-old Bolivian mummy shows scarlet fever was circulating in the Americas long ...

Utility crews constructing a natural gas pipeline in Peru uncovered a 1,000-year-old mummy. Located in what is now a neighborhood, the seated mummy was likely the result of a pre-Hispanic burial. The ...

The mummy, believed to date back to the Ptolemaic period (around 332–30 BCE), was not newly excavated, but rather rediscovered through modern science. It has been housed at the Archdiocesan Museum in ...

Two German hikers, Erika and Helmut Simon, could never have imagined what they would stumble upon setting out on their hike in the Ötztal Alps on the border between Austria and Italy. What appeared to ...

The Telangana government plans renovation of the State Archaeology Museum in Hyderabad, focusing on conservation of Egyptian mummy and tourism enhancement.

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