The Spirit Cave Mummy’s story begins in 1940 when it was ... A related study published in Cell also examines the movement of the first humans in the Americas and how they spread across the ...

Ancient Egyptians believed the heart was the seat of the person's essence, so it was always left inside a mummy. But the process of mummification was complicated and costly, so it was typically ...

100-year-old folklore and pop culture have perpetuated the myth that opening a mummy's tomb leads to certain death. Movie mummies are known for two things: fabulous riches and a nasty curse that ...

Figure 1: Map of northern Chile, showing locations of study fields from which mummy bones and blood samples of contemporary Andean people were collected (boxed area, right, enlarged at left).