Facebook is Investigating the Illegal Selling of Skulls and Mummified Corpses on the Platform

Medicine & Technology Jul 06, 2020

The practice is deemed illegal and unethical not only in the US but across the globe as well.

Yemen War Can Destroy Millennia-Old Preserved Mummies

May 14, 2017

The after effects of the Yemen war are very damaging to the country. The ongoing war has created a risk for the millennia old mummies kept in the museum.

8 Mummies, 1,000 Statues, 10 Sarcophagi Discovered At 3,500-Year-Old Tomb In Luxor, Egypt

Apr 19, 2017

Find out more about the Egyptian archeologists' discovery of eight mummies and more here.

Tombs Filled with Mummies Discovered in Peru

Apr 10, 2015

Scientists have discovered tombs filled with up to 40 mummies, each around a 1,200 year old ceremonial site in Peru's Cotahuasi Valley. Thus far, archaeologists have excavated seven tombs containing at least 171 mummies in an area now called Tenahaha.

Climate Change Degrading Ancient Mummies

Mar 10, 2015

About 7 thousands years ago and predating the Egyptians by several thousands of years lived a tribe of people off the coast of Chile and southern Peru lived a tribe of people known today as "the Chinchorro". Like the ancient Egyptians, the Chinchorro used to mummify its dead, creating the oldest known mummies on Earth. But today, these mummies are now threatened by climate change.