Mummies

A hair sample from an ancient trophy head found buried in Peru reveals that the victim consumed a psychoactive plant prior to death.

CT scans of the child's mummy show that the toddler, a descendant of an Austrian count, died from a vitamin D deficiency due to lack of sunlight.

King Tut died of a combination of malaria and a bone disorder, new DNA analysis reveals.

An astonishingly lifelike facial reconstruction reveals the face of an enigmatic mummy who may have been the biological father of the renowned pharaoh Tutankhamen.

Here's how the idea of a "mummy's curse" got started.

South American mummies were likely brutally murdered 1,000 years ago, and the evidence is still preserved today, a new study finds.