BRIDGEPORT — If you’ve ever visited the P.T. Barnum Museum, you’ll likely remember the mysterious Egyptian Mummy and coffin. But if you haven’t visited the museum in a while — and it’s been closed due ...

X-ray scans have finally unravelled the mystery of how a famous ancient Egyptian “locked mummy” was placed inside a coffin with seemingly no entry point. Out of the over dozen Egyptian mummies housed ...

You might not think a paleontologist looking for 66-million-year-old fossils would need to ask a rancher about his great-grandmother's job in the Wyoming badlands. But that's what Paul Sereno, a ...

The Perth Museum has teamed up with a forensics expert to allow museumgoers to see the faces of the unreachable past like never before. However, they weren't expecting to find a Black Kushite princess ...

In 1915, a team of U.S. archaeologists excavating the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Deir el-Bersha blasted into a hidden tomb. Inside the cramped limestone chamber, they were greeted by a gruesome ...

With its painted-on eyebrows, somber expression and wavy brown hair peeking through its tattered bandages, the mummy’s noggin brought viewers face to face with a mystery. “The head had been found on ...

An image shows the scaly skin of a crest over the back of the juvenile duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens, a specimen nicknamed "Ed Jr." by researchers. The juvenile is estimated to have ...