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Researchers consider the discovered remains to be mummies because they were deliberately mummified through smoke-drying, even though their soft tissue was not preserved.

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The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm.

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Normally, aging adults lose 2.24 percent in brain volume each year, but in super-agers, the rate is much slower. Northwestern ...

A unique game piece from Norway that was crafted during the time of Harald Bluetooth may depict a Viking king.

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As they prepared to view some of the most lethal weaponry on the planet, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin mused about the wonders of medicine, the possibility of trading ...