“We found the first mummy on the second day of the excavation,” di Lernia ... at the rock shelter possibly migrated there with humankind’s first big push out of Africa more than 50,000 years ago.

Image (from CT scan) by Salima Ikram and others, South African Mummy Project Team Peering inside the linen wrappings of an ancient Egyptian bird mummy, a CT scan has revealed a true rara avis—a ...

An archaeology breakthrough has been made after a previously unknown human lineage that lived in the "green Sahara" in Africa was discovered through two 7,000-year-old mummies. DNA revealed the ...