The temperature variation on the Moon, fluctuating up to 127°C (260°F) during the day to -173°C (-280°F) at night, would also ...

Samples of 'The Black Death', which wiped out 50 million people in medieval times, were found in an Egyptian mummy ...

A team tested the ancient mummy dating back more than 3,000 years and discovered the bubonic plague in his bone tissue and intestines, making it the first found outside medieval Eurasia ...

Detailed tests on the corpse are planned for next year. The enormous tadpole-shaped crater that revealed the mammoth - also called Batagaika - is 100 metres deep and a kilometre long. It is the ...

I Think The Next Great Mummy Movie Needs Brendan Fraser . The Mummy movies go way back, from the 1932 Boris Karloff version to the 1959 one with Christopher Lee. Aside from The Mu ...

A new book digs in to what archaeologists are finding in melting glaciers around the world, and the race to find them before they're lost to the elements.

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Wandel remains stunned by the treatment of her father, who, as a former Army service member, was entitled to be buried in a veterans’ cemetery but whose corpse instead was first sent to a body ...