Ancient People Also Had Gastric Infections
	Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium known to cause gastric infections, has been discovered for the first time in the stomach remains of the mummies of native people predating the discovery and colonization of the New World by the Europeans. "It is only through the use of the stomach tissue of these incredible mummies that we were able to make this discovery. Infection is established when the micro-organism infiltrates the st ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2008, 06:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

"The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" for Mobiles Is Out
	First announced back in May, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" for mobile phones is now available from Gameloft, the well-known game developer and publisher. [admark=1]Coming as the official mobile game for the Universal Pictures film with the same title, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" is released more than two weeks before the premiere of the movie, which will hit the US theaters starting the 1s ... [read more >>]
	14 July 2008, 08:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Duckbill Fossil Found in Montana
	During a tour of a region where nearly eight years ago a mummified duckbill was found, a public relations coordinator from the Texas museum discovered the fossil of a duckbilled dinosaur that roamed the Earth some 75 million years ago. Leonardo, as the mummified specimen found in Montana was named, is currently on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The author of the discovery, Steven Cowan, a 22 year old employe ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2008, 05:45GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Egypt Wants DNA Test to Identify Pharaoh Mummy
	This is the second time Egypt conducts DNA tests in order to identify the mummy of an important pharaoh. Last year, the Egyptian authorities carried out a test involving the mummy of a female believed to be Queen Hatshepsut, but the results have never been disclosed. This time the 3,500 year old mummy of what experts believe to be the remains of one of the most important pharaohs in the history of Egypt, King Thutmose I, will be subjected ... [read more >>]
	30 May 2008, 04:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Gameloft Announces "The Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" Mobile Game
	Gameloft has just announced having secured the license from the Universal Pictures Digital Platforms Group to develop and publish the mobile game of the upcoming supernatural adventure The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in theaters on August 1st, 2008. This seems ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2008, 03:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mummified Dinosaur Uncovered
	There are mummies which can be older than those of the ancient pharaohs. Some even older than 65 Ma. An amazingly preserved "dinosaur mummy", containing a lot of tissues and bones inside skin wrapping, is being brought to light in North Dakota's state museum. Dakota is an Edmontosaurus, one of the largest duckbilled dinosaurs and was discovered in southwestern North Dakota in 2004. The fossilized skin of the 67-Ma-old dino ... [read more >>]
	20 March 2008, 03:42GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Lice from Mummies Track Down Human Migration
	They may be nasty, but these parasites are intimately bound to humans and may tell a lot of our past. They can only live on humans and die rapidly out of their human hosts, unable to parasitize any other animal. Head lice collected from 1,000-year-old Peruvian mummies clearly point that they accompanied humans during their first migration out of Africa, 100,000 years ago. A DNA analysis published in the "Journal of Infec ... [read more >>]
	07 February 2008, 02:48GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Complete Dinosaur Mummy Found!
	Mummies can go far beyond the era of the ancient pharaohs. Even to the dinosaur era. Researchers have just revealed the discovery of an amazingly preserved "dinosaur mummy", containing a lot of tissues and bones inside skin wrapping, including well preserved tendons and ligaments, which are seldom discovered nowadays, when most dinosaur remains that are found are only scattered bones. The discovery of the 67-million-year-old ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 02:59GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Oetzi, The Oldest Preserved Human Being: 5,300 Years Old
	At first sight, it looked like a crime place. A drought cadaver was lying face downward, half stuck in the ice. An accidental death or a crime? Or just another mountaineering victim at 3,200 m (10,660 ft) height in the Tirol Alps? The Ice Man was found in September 1991 by casualty by a couple of German mountaineers wandering on the Mount Similaun (in Oetztal Alps, at the border between Austria and Italy). The extremely warm summer in ... [read more >>]
	13 November 2007, 14:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Kidney Stone: Causes and Treatments
	About 300,000 people annually in US enter the hospitals because of the kidney stones (medically called renal lithiases). The pain is excruciating, like that felt by women when giving birth. Some believe this condition is something recent, linked to modern lifestyle and junk food. In reality, people have been tortured by this condition for centuries. Even in the Egyptian mummies, thousands of years old, researchers found kidney stones. ... [read more >>]
	08 November 2007, 17:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Tutankhamon's Face Exposed to the Public
	Those fascinated by the ancient Egypt have been waiting for this moment for 85 years, since the discovery of the famous mummy of the 19-year-old "Boy Pharaoh" by Howard Carter: as from yesterday the public can see the 3,000-year-old face of Tutankhamon in his tomb in the famous Valley of the Kings. The mummy has a shriveled leathery black face and body and it is exposed in a climate-controlled glass box, but only the face and ... [read more >>]
	05 November 2007, 02:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Scientists Solve the Mysteries of the Frozen Inca Child Mummies
	The gods asked for their sacrifice in the Andes mountains, and now the Inca children represent one of the best naturally cold preserved mummies. DNA and isotope analyses made by a team led by Andrew Wilson of the University of Bradford in England on the hair samples taken from 4 Inca children mummies and small bags accompanying them revealed that the ancient Inca chose children as young as 6, "fattened them up" for a year and sen ... [read more >>]
	02 October 2007, 05:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

How Did Oetzi, the Iceman, Die?
	This is the oldest natural ice mummy: 5,300 years old. The mummified, frozen body of Ötzi was discovered in 1991 by accident by two German tourists and the Ötztal region between Austria and Italy where it was discovered was called after it. The body, stuck in the Schnalstal glacier, offers a glimpse at the European Copper Age. Ever since this discovery, everybody has wanted to know why the mysterious Iceman died. In 2000 ... [read more >>]
	31 August 2007, 05:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

World's Oldest Human Functional Prosthesis, Found on an Egyptian Mummy
	We know that queen Hatshepsut wore false beard. But the ancient Egyptian technology went much further. An artificial big toe discovered on the foot of an Egyptian mummy could be the world's oldest functioning prosthetic body part. Volunteers missing their right big toe will test replicas of the prosthesis to see how effective that really was. The mummy from the Cairo museum in Egypt was discovered in 2000 in a tomb close to the an ... [read more >>]
	28 July 2007, 03:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Korean Mummies Reveal a 700-Year-Old Asian Romeo and Juliet Story
	We have become more familiar with the Egyptian mummies. Or the Peruvian or Siberian ones. Now, scientists have been surprised to find a drove of mummies in South Korea. Accidentally mummified, the 700-year-old bodies could come with clues to prevent a deadly modern-day infection but they also reveal an Asian variant of Romeo and Juliet, strikingly similar with the original. One of the mummies still contains traces of the hepatitis ... [read more >>]
	27 July 2007, 05:20GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Mummy Analysis Shows Ancient Egyptian Queen Was Fat, Balding and Bearded
	Last week, perhaps the most significant finding from the ancient Egypt was announced, ever since the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun by the English archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. In 1903, Carter had come across two sarcophagi in a tomb marked as KV60 in the Theban necropolis, the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. One apparently harbored the mummy of Hatshepsut's wet nurse Sitre-In and the identity of the other mu ... [read more >>]
	07 July 2007, 04:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Ancient Salt Mummy Discovered in Iran
	The most famous mummies are the ancient Egyptian ones, which are the result of human manipulation. But nature, too, can deliver mummies in some special conditions like extreme cold, dryness, and a naturally occurring mix of chemicals that can impede the decomposition processes. Low temperatures have preserved some Inca-era mummies in the Peruvian Andes Mountains, or corpses of natives in the subarctic islands of the Aleutian Islands. B ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2007, 02:51GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Mummy of the Female Pharaoh Hatshepsut Has Been Identified!
	Perhaps the most fascinating woman of the ancient Egypt was not Cleopatra (which was not even Egyptian, but Greek), but the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut. Now, the rush for finding her mummy seems to have finally reached an end. This would be the most significant finding from the ancient Egypt since the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun by the English archaeologist Howard Carter in 1922. A broken tooth represents the latest clue which m ... [read more >>]
	27 June 2007, 06:38GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Why Did Ötzi, the 'Iceman' Mummy, Die?
	This is the oldest European mummy, 5,300 years old, and the oldest ice mummy worldwide. The mummified, frozen body of Ötzi was discovered in 1991 by accident by two German tourists and named after the Ötztal region between Austria and Italy where it was found. The body, stuck in the Schnalstal glacier offered a lot of data about the European Copper Age. Ever since this discovery, everybody has wanted to know why the Ice ... [read more >>]
	07 June 2007, 05:28GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Scanning Finds A Spear in the Head of an Egyptian Mummy
	A mysterious mummy of a child was found in central Egypt, near the city of Abydos, in 1912. It was acquired by the Pittsburgh museum and it has been on display since 1989. The child must have lived sometime between 380 B.C. and 250 B.C., during the Greek Ptolemaic Dynasty (Cleopatra was the last of this dynasty), installed in Egypt after its conquest by Alexander the Great. A CT scan done Wednesday at a Pittsburgh hospital d ... [read more >>]
	05 May 2007, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Pharaoh of the Exodus Receives Back His Hair Stolen in France
	This mighty pharaoh has been linked to the events counted in the Bible about the Jews' exodus from Egypt and was confronted by Moses. Ramses II (1270 to 1213 B.C.) was even more known as one of the greatest military leaders of the Ancient Egypt and builder of some of the largest Egyptian monuments. Now, locks of 3,200-year-old hair from this pharaoh' head adornments were displayed at the Egyptian Museum on Tuesd ... [read more >>]
	11 April 2007, 11:07GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Pharaoh's Heart Unmasked
	The Canopic jars have been on display in the Louvre Museum (Paris) for a century (more precisely from 1905) holding the embalmed innards of the great Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II the Great (1302-1213 BC). But a new chemical analysis made by a French team revealed that the four pots, scripted with hieroglyphs, are not what people thought they are: the jars contained just ordinary cosmetics, from a much later date. The jars exhibit the ... [read more >>]
	16 March 2007, 08:40GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia