In the wake of a controversial journey to include Chinese mummies in its “Secrets of the Silk Road” exhibit, the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology hosted a group of scholars who attempted to ...

When the 3,600-year-old coffin of a young woman was excavated in northwestern China two decades ago, archeologists discovered a mysterious substance laid out along her neck like a piece of jewelry. It ...

The Penn Museum says that its exhibit on China's silk road, which had many original artifacts pulled at the last minute by that country's government, will now open with a full complement of mummies ...

In the dry hills of the central Asian province, archeologists have unearthed more than 100 corpses that are as much as 4,000 years old, astonishingly well preserved--and caucasian. One glimpse of the ...

For months, the museum in Philadelphia has been building buzz about its upcoming exhibit, "Secrets of the Silk Road," and the crowning jewel of its display: an amazingly intact mummy from western ...

“Regular cheese is soft. This is not. It has now become really dry, dense and hard dust,” said Fu Qiaomei, a paleogeneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and the co-author of a study ...