A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

Archeologists may have uncovered the oldest and "most complete" mummy ever found in Egypt during a recent excavation at a site in Saqqara, about 20 miles from Cairo. Dr. Zahi Hawass, the country's ...

Palaeontologists claim to have discovered a rare “dinosaur mummy” in Canada, said to be one of the most well-preserved dinosaur fossils ever found. The fossil of the hadrosaur, a duck-billed, ...

Archaeologists uncover 59 sealed mummy coffins at Saqqara, Egypt, many believed to hold the remains of ancient priests. This ...

In a remarkable intersection of modern urban development and ancient history, utility workers in Lima, Peru, unearthed a ...

Correction: This story has been updated to clarify the body was estimated to have been buried about 3,500 years ago. More than two millennia ago, an unnamed woman died under unknown circumstances.

For most people, an extinct species is an abstraction, a set of bones they might have seen on display in a museum. For Gennady Boeskorov, they are things he has interacted with directly, studying ...

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LIMA, Peru (AP) - Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - A mummy known as the "Screaming Woman," for obvious reasons, has left scientists baffled ever since being discovered. But a new study of this ancient Egyptian woman's mummified ...

Recent analysis of an Ancient Egyptian mummy held at the Smithsonian Institution for over a century yielded a surprise: an almost fully-developed fetus inside the mummy's chest cavity. Francine ...