Always check for a toilet paper supply before you sit down.This mummy in the webcomic Berkeley Mews didn’t, but he seems to be content with his pricey solution....

Believe it or not, powdered ancient dead guys were prescribed to cure what ails you. With all the moisture gone and other things mixed in, doctors could tell themselves this wasn't exactly cannibalism.Physicians pre-scri...

Ten years ago, archaeologists removed a couple of 3,000-year-old skeletons buried in a peat bog in Scotland. Recent DNA tests have determined that the male and female bodies, which were buried in a fetal position, were a...

Sure most people want to spend their summers in Ha...  ...d the mummified bodies were put on display in the Mummies ’ Museum. Ninety percent of the bodies buried we...  ...ming though after the 1970 movie Santo Versus the Mummies of Guanajuato featured popular masked wrestler Sa...  ...atured popular masked wr...

Until about fifty years ago, the town of Guanajuat...  ...ate is very arid, so the disinterred were already mummies . In fact, the museum and the mummies are still there. But that's not the most bizarre...  ...ard. The wrestlers stop in Guanajuato and all the mummies come alive...

The medicinal uses of powdered mummy by A.S. Kaswell, Improbable Research staff Nowadays, powdered mummy may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but for many years it was just what the doctor ordered. That’s one of...

Thousands of mummified animals have been recovered in Egypt over the past hundred years. They include gazelles, shrews, rams, crocodiles, hawks, fish, dung beetles, and of course, cats. In the early days of excavation, t...

Pink Tentacle has a roundup of the different typ...  ...Tentacle has a roundup of the different types of mummies found in Japan. There are the monks who mummified...  ...ed themselves in order to attain Nirvana, mermaid mummies made from parts of different animals, and superna...