Known as "Fred," this mummy proves that Egyptians had been using embalming practices for 1,500 years longer than scientists ...

The Turin mummy—or “Fred” as he is often affectionately called—has been housed in Turin's Egyptian Museum since the early 1900s, and he had remained untouched by modern preservatives and ...

The tests were carried out on the 'Turin Mummy' which dates to between 3700BC and 3500BC and has been housed in the Egyptian Museum in Turin since 1901.

The oldest confirmed case of the illness shows the bubonic plague circulated in North Africa thousands of years before the ...

Embalming in ancient Egypt predated the pharaohs, an ancient mummy reveals. The mummy — an adult male curled on its left side in a fetal pose — is about 6,000 years old. Further examination ...

The mummy is housed at the Egyptian Museum of Turin in Turin, Italy. Getty Images However, the Black Death’s existence wasn’t able to be confirmed without DNA evidence like the kind found in ...

The Turin mummy seems to have kept all his organs, and it’s not likely he was treated with natron salt, but he was buried in hot, dry desert sand, which would have kept his body desiccated.

Some of those wrappings dated to as early as 4300 BCE (about 600 years older than the Turin mummy), and others dated to as late as 3100 BCE, but none were still associated with an actual mummy.