A scan revealed that an Egyptian crocodile mummy preserves a fish caught on a bronze hook after more than 2,000 years.

Arabian cheetah mummies' DNA reveals that the long-lost population could be closely replaced by a cheetah population in ...

Thousands of animals — from crocodiles to cobras, down to scarab beetles — were once mummified in ancient Egypt. New analysis of the dyes on the textiles that tightly bound these mummies is now ...

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SAQQARA, Egypt (AP) — Egypt’s Ministry of Antiquities on Saturday revealed details on recently discovered animal mummies, saying they include two lion cubs as well as several crocodiles, birds and ...

Historical records show cheetahs were present in the Arabian Peninsula and the Levant until very recently, with the last ...

The Walters Art Museum has mummies all wrapped up. Visitors will have a rare opportunity to get up close and personal with human and animal mummies in the focus show “Mummified,” on display at the ...

DONALDSON TAKES A LOOK INSIDE. THE MOST COMMON TYPE OF ARTIFACT FOUND IN EXCAVATIONS IN ANCIENT EGYPT IS ACTUALLY MUMMIFIED ANIMALS. THERE WERE 7 MILLION DOGS THAT WERE MUMMIFIED, FOUND SO FAR, 4 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Paul C. Sereno, University of Chicago (THE CONVERSATION) Dinosaur “mummies” couldn’t ...