Archaeologists claim to have unearthed at least five Italian mummies preserved in mercury for almost 200 years. Italian anatomist Giovan Battista Rini (1795-1856 ) “petrified” the corpses and ...

Discovered in 1991 poking out of a glacier in the Italian Alps, Otzi is one of the oldest mummified person ever found. As a comparison, Egyptian mummies are several hundred years younger.

BERGAMO, Italy, June 22 – Ancient Egypt met modern medical technology when a mummy underwent a CT scan at an Italian hospital as part of a research project to discover its secrets. The mummy of ...

An 800-year-old mummy buried in South America was found to have particularly unique tattoo designs inked into its face. For […] ...

The oldest known sample of an Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria has been extracted from a 16th century Italian mummy by an international team of researchers. Modern E. coli bacteria is often ...

Since Ötzi the Iceman’s discovery in the Italian Alps 30 years ago, no mummy has been more extensively studied and analyzed. In fact, the 5,000-year-old man is widely credited with launching ...

Oetzi the Iceman has a new look. Decades after the famous glacier mummy was discovered in the Italian Alps, scientists have dug back into his DNA to paint a better picture of the ancient hunter.

BERGAMO, Italy, June 22 (Reuters) - Ancient Egypt met modern medical technology when a mummy underwent a CT scan at an Italian hospital as part of a research project to discover its secrets.