In September, staff members rolled 26 of the mummies on display at the museum on specially built carts to the parking lot to be put through a mobile CT scanner. The nondestructive technology ...

How did traces of cocaine, a plant native to South America, end up in Egyptian mummies from 3,000 years ago? 🕵️‍♂️ This ...

However, the authenticity of the so-called tridactyl mummies has been widely disputed by the scientific community.

It is incredibly rare that you get to investigate or view history from the perspective of a single individual,” one Field ...

Mummies can be dried in the sun, with fire or smoke, or with chemicals. Since most bacteria and fungi cannot live in sub-freezing temperatures, permanent freezing can also produce a mummy.

Learn more › Chicago’s Field Museum is home to over a dozen ancient Egyptian mummies but one in particular has perplexed researchers for years. Now, the mystery of Lady Chenet-aa’s burial ...

Mummies—named after the bitumen tar, mum, used to coat the linen winding strips around them—have long held an almost magical fascination. The "civilized" world was titillated by Egypt's ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Just in time for Halloween, scientists at the Field Museum of Natural History are peeling back the wrappings of several Egyptian mummies—without disrupting their eternal slumber.

One of these is San Francisco-based cartoon Mummies Alive!, which ran for a single, 42-episode season in 1997. Let us now listen to the theme tune: a song drenched in exposition, vague nods to the ...

Archaeologists have unearthed 2,000-year-old mummies with golden tongues placed inside their mouths in northern Egypt, the antiquities ministry says. An Egyptian-Dominican team working at ...

She explained to us how the medical use of mummies paired with later Egyptomania resulted in the loss of millions of mummies. Produced by Grace Raver and Christine Nguyen Follow TI: On Facebook ...

This book presents the story of mummification as a practice worldwide. Mummies have been found on every continent, some deliberately preserved by use of a variety of complex techniques (as with the ...