Scientists successfully extracted and sequenced DNA from a 3,600-year-old cheese found smeared on mummies in the Xiaohe cemetery in Xinjiang, Western China. The cheese, discovered nearly two ...

In the late 1980's, perfectly preserved 3000-year-old mummies began appearing in a remote Chinese desert. They had long reddish-blond hair, European features and didn't appear to be the ancestors ...

With a tool often used in the study of dinosaur fossils, scientists uncovered new details in ornate tattoos on the skin of members of the Chancay culture of Peru.

Not to put too fine a point on it, a mummy is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin ...

For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos. In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover ...

Scientists use advanced laser technology to reveal incredibly precise hidden tattoos on more than 100 mummies found in Peru.