With its gray industrial tile, stationary labels and faux-wood shelving, the Egyptian mummy exhibit room - deep in the basement of the Putnam Museum - has looked the same since about the 1970s. "So, ...

As curators around the world grapple with the ethics of collecting human remains, one museum in Australia is taking action: Earlier this month, the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney ...

CASPER, Wyo. — We zigzagged across the sage and stone, following a line visible only on a map — 7,700 feet above sea level. Look up, covering eyes against the midday sun. Does that rock look right?

Months after Egypt boldly announced that archaeologists had identified a mummy as the most powerful queen of her time, scientists in a museum basement are still analyzing DNA from the bald, 3,500-year ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the late 1960s, an Arnott’s biscuit tin was donated to Sydney University’s antiquities museum. Inside was a mummified hand, which had ...