Archaeologists strip mummies to save ancient clothing in China

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 26, 2013, 19:55

Chinese archaeologists have carefully stripped the 2,200-year-old clothing from four mummies in order to prevent the delicate outfits from decaying with the dried corpses.

Archaeologists strip mummies to save ancient clothing in China

Last Updated: Tuesday, November 26, 2013, 16:31

Chinese archaeologists have carefully stripped the 2,200-year-old clothing from four mummies in order to prevent the delicate outfits from decaying with the dried corpses.

Egyptians kept `meat mummies` with `real mummies` for afterlife

Last Updated: Wednesday, November 20, 2013, 18:16

A new study has revealed that mummified cuts of meat were preserved and placed in Egyptian tombs as food for the afterlife.

Two mummies found in ancient Peru cemetery

Last Updated: Friday, October 25, 2013, 22:26

Two pre-Columbian mummies more than a thousand years old were found in a pre-Incan cemetery in a suburb of Lima, archeologists said Thursday.

Inca mummies show child sacrifice victims were drugged

Last Updated: Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 15:22

Mummies of three children used as ritual sacrifices by the centuries-old Inca civilisation show they were fed a significant amount of drugs and alcohol for months to hasten their deaths.

Ancient Chilean mummies show nicotine habit

Last Updated: Sunday, June 30, 2013, 12:57

Scientists analysing hair samples from mummies in a Chilean town have found that for hundreds of years, people of all social classes in the region consumed nicotine.

Dozens of mummies found in pre-Inca royal tomb in Peru

Last Updated: Saturday, June 29, 2013, 15:02

Polish and Peruvian archaeologists have discovered a royal burial chamber with 60 mummies and some 1,200 gold, silver and ceramic objects from over 1,000 years ago in Peru.