South west of Cairo, deep in Egypt’s Western Desert, there lie treasures even more ancient than the pharaohs’ tombs — and travellers can visit them to see one of the great mysteries of evolution ...
Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.
The history of this practice has been traced back to ancient Egypt in previous studies, however, its exact origin remains a mystery. Signs of skull modification seen on ancient sheep skull dated to ...