The mummy was given the name of Ötzi the ... thought to have medicinal or therapeutic purposes since ancient cultures believed tattoos could heal illnesses. A research team consisting of ...

Many of the tattoos could have been an ancient way to treat joint pain in ... Marco Samadelli, senior researcher at the ...

Egyptians: the masters of mummification Ancient Egyptians are perhaps the best known mummy-makers—though initially, it was their climate, not their skill, that preserved the dead. Arid desert ...

In western Greenland, eight mummies of people who died in the 15th century were discovered at a cliff site called Qilakitsoq in 1972. The most famous mummy is that of a 6-month-old boy; he and his ...

Examination of a mummy has revealed the original ancient Egyptian embalming recipe - first used to preserve bodies. A battery of forensic chemical tests carried out on a mummy that dated from ...

This Ancient Egyptian mummy cartonnage was made for a woman named An-Ankh-Rat. The cartonnage is made from linen bandage, soaked in plant gum to make it set in the required shape. The face mask is ...

Image (from CT scan) by Salima Ikram and others, South African Mummy Project Team Peering inside the linen wrappings of an ancient Egyptian bird mummy, a CT scan has revealed a true rara avis—a ...

Inside his cooler bag was an ancient mummy. The man said that he had been sharing his room with the bandaged mummy and considered it "a kind of spiritual girlfriend". He had put the remains in the ...

"My research has not only confirmed that there is, of course, no ancient Egyptian origin of the mummy's curse concept, but, more importantly, it also reveals that it didn't originate in the 1923 ...

This mummy mask is coated in gold leaf. It is a mask for a rich ancient Egyptian. This mask was put on top of a mummy's bandages to protect the head. This is a blue glazed shabti figure of a ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years.

Scientists retrieved ancient kefir cheese from Tarim Basin mummies dating back 3,500 years from the Xiaohe cemetery located in Xinjiang, Western China. By analyzing the DNA of Bronze Aged cheese ...