Mummies can be dried in the sun, with fire or smoke, or with chemicals. Since most bacteria and fungi cannot live in sub-freezing temperatures, permanent freezing can also produce a mummy.

The mystery surrounding Peru's alleged 'alien mummies' has intensified following a recent investigation by Joshua McDowell, a defence attorney and former Colorado prosecutor. He, along with three ...

Most Inca mummies were arranged in the familiar fetal position and were either wrapped in leather or cloth, or placed in baskets or under huge ceramic jars. These "mummy bundles" were often ...

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Historian and biologist José Viera y Clavijo described the cave in which "no less than a thousand mummies" were found ... exhibited mummified people from Peru will be darkened, including remains ...

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