One of Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun's golden sarcophagus is displayed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010. Two years of DNA testing and CT scans on King Tutankhamun's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Takarkori rock shelter, an archaeological site in Libya’s Tadrart Acacus mountains, offers a glimpse into the Sahara Desert's ...

Scientists are trying to solve the mystery of what race a group of cone-shaped skulls belong to as wild theories claim they ...

Egypt plans to conduct a DNA test on a 3,500-year-old mummy to determine whether it is King Thutmose I, one of the most important pharaohs, the country's chief archaeologist said Thursday. Zahi Hawass ...

A new DNA analysis of Peru’s mysterious conehead mummies failed to fully explain the origins of the Paracas skulls.

India, May 29 -- It remains a mystery whether the conehead mummies found in Peru are human or alien, some say. The latest DNA testing on the ancient skulls failed to find any evidence that they were ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a ...

CAIRO, Egypt -- 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 ...

ATLANTA -- The body is remarkably well-preserved, filled full of resin and stuffed with rolled linen some 3,000 years ago. It has a mouthful of teeth, an intact facial profile and long arms still ...

(CNN) — Today, the view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya is of endless sandy dunes and barren rock, but 7,000 years ago, this region of the Sahara Desert was a far lusher, ...