Embalming methods usually reflect the tools and materials available. For example, the Aleut people, who lived on the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska, mummified their dead by removing the ...

There are mummies by design and mummies by accident. The best-known mummies, human and animal, are probably those that underwent elaborate embalming and burial procedures in ancient Egypt.

Long before the Western diet of red meat, fat and salt, ancient hunter-gatherers also suffered from clogged arteries, U.S. researchers say mummies reveal. Senior author Caleb Finch, a professor at ...

Like nearly 4.6 million Americans, ancient hunter-gatherers also suffered from clogged arteries, revealing that the plaque build-up causing blood clots, heart attacks and strokes is not just a result ...