Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery.

We typically associate mummies with ancient Egypt - or sometimes cheesy old horror movies. Now a newly described mummy from an unexpected place - Austria - details in the journal Frontiers in Medicine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Austrian scientists have discovered a bizarre and previously unknown embalming method used on a centuries old mummy found in a ...

MUNICH — The rectum isn’t typically associated with mummification techniques, but scientists have just discovered that’s exactly how an 18th-century Austrian priest became one of Europe’s ...

Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery.While other mummies ...