Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History has given researchers the opportunity to learn more about the ancient individuals inside mummies, without needing to disturb their delicate wrapping. A mobile ...

Ancient Egyptian mummies were an important aspect of archaeology and defined the field in many ways. The excitement of a dinosaur fossil was parallel to the intriguing revelation of a wrapped mummy.

Mummies of the World begins with two striking displays: a mummified howler monkey from the Gran Chaco plain of Argentina draped in a feather skirt and collar, and a child mummy from Egypt, who, ...

Called simply “Mummies” and running in the museum’s top-floor temporary exhibition spaces until May next year, the exhibition ...

Animal mummification in ancient Egypt was a carefully organized practice that connected spiritual beliefs with economic activity. This wasn’t a rare or occasional ritual but a large, sustained ...