KURASHIKI, Okayama Prefecture—A “mermaid mummy” kept at a temple has been an object of worship, the stuff of nightmares and a source of mystery for hundreds of years. Now, for the first time ...
Image courtesy of Universal Pictures. Stephen Sommers’ The Mummy is one of the most popular remakes of classic Universal Monster movies, and several key elements show why it has stood the test ...
As if the preservation of skin, armor, and guts weren’t impressive enough, the dinosaur mummy is also unique in that it was preserved in three dimensions — meaning that the original shape of ...
Amazing, tattooed hand of an 800-year-old mummy. Credit: Kaye et al ... These tattoos likely held deep cultural and perhaps spiritual meaning. They may even have had therapeutic purposes ...
Pinning down the methods that tattooists used is an important step in interpreting the meaning of body art to ... with the oldest known body art on a mummy, may have been inked primarily for ...