Placing a body in an oxygen-free environment ... not their skill, that preserved their dead. Arid desert winds and blazing hot sand could dry corpses out quickly enough to mummify them.

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather from Central Italy was preserved down to the microscopic level by volcanic rock.

Placing a body in an oxygen-free environment ... not their skill, that preserved the dead. Arid desert winds and blazing hot sand occasionally dried corpses out quickly enough to mummify them.

For researchers at the Penn Museum, a 500-year-old mummy that still has perfectly preserved teeth and intact ... of Buddhist ...

The preserved bodies of dead babies - some with umbilical cords still attached - were found in a house of horrors in Japan. Termite exterminators working on a house renovation in Tokyo uncovered ...