A mummy, to put it bluntly, is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin, but sometimes organs ...

"La Momia del Cerro El Plomo," the Mummy of El Plomo Peak became its name, and until Juanita, it was heralded as the best preserved. Scientists were able to establish many of the El Plomo mummy's ...

The name Nesyamun means "The one belonging to the ... Nesyamun is very important as the only Mummy to have been dated to this period, as well as explaining Egyptian culture. His coffin gives ...