A 3,000-year-old mummified crocodile is giving us a peek into the strange and fascinating world of ancient Egyptian rituals.

Lake Natron in northern Tanzania is notorious for killing and preserving dead animals. If you died in its waters, its high levels of sodium carbonate would mummify your body. But instead of taking a ...

Long before the Egyptians, an ancient Chilean culture practiced an unusual form of mummification: they turned their dead into dolls. Whenever death struck this ancient community, the Chinchorro ...