The Chinchorro people of the Pacific coast turned the raw pain of loss into something enduring and visible, reshaping the ...
This ancient crocodile never finished its last meal. More than 2,000 years after it died, researchers can still make out a small fish inside its stomach—its body intact, still caught on a bronze hook.
In a recent study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Dr. Bernardo Arriaza argues that the practice of ...
The Chinchorro began mummifying their dead well before the Egyptians immortalized the practice. However, the Chinchorro ...
The Chinchorro people, who inhabited the coastal regions of what is now northern Chile and southern Peru beginning around 7000 BC, developed the earliest known artificial mummification techniques - ...
Scientists have reconstructed the most complete and lifelike profile of Edmontosaurus annectens thanks to an extraordinary preservation process called clay templating, in which a thin clay film ...
The mummified remains were excavated from a burial site in Bologna, Italy, and are almost complete except for the feet. They ...
Brendan Fraser is firmly back in the Oscars conversation thanks to his vulnerable and deeply human performance in Searchlight Pictures’ “Rental Family” (in theaters Nov. 21). Fraser stars as Phillip ...