In the 19th century, preserved bodies were not only ceremonially unveiled; owning one became a status symbol. “It would be ...

Crocodiles loomed large in the world of the ancient Egyptians. The Nile teemed with the lurking reptiles, and farmers, who made up most of the population, encountered them on a daily basis. While ...

The Chinchorro people of the Pacific coast turned the raw pain of loss into something enduring and visible, reshaping the bodies of their dead into carefully crafted figures that still hold their form ...

In a recent study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Dr. Bernardo Arriaza argues that the practice of artificial mummification among the Chinchorro people may have evolved as a ...

New research examining 7,000-year-old mummies from Chile's Atacama Desert has revealed that prehistoric hunter-gatherers possessed significantly more sophisticated artistic and emotional capabilities ...

We look back at some common threads spotted in 2025, from artists turning their frames into bordercore to the glaring glitz of 'Red-Chip' art. A sculpture by Curtis Talwst Santiago presented by Rachel ...

Called simply “Mummies” and running in the museum’s top-floor temporary exhibition spaces until May next year, the exhibition ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a new ...