More than 100,000 curious visitors each year flock to the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, which dates back to 1849. It was ...

Supporters saw the Mütter’s preserved fetuses, skulls, and “Soap Lady” as a celebration of human difference. New management ...

Archaeologists in Williamsburg, Virginia were excavating the grounds of a building that stored gunpowder during the American ...

Researchers sequenced ancient Egyptian DNA from a 4,500-year-old skeleton, revealing genetic links between early Egypt and ...

Archaeologists in Denmark recently uncovered 30 Viking graves—a remarkable find on its own. The bigger surprise? The graves ...

Mr Clarke said: "We see human remains in every museum across the country." In his 11 years at the museum, he said, there had not been a single complaint about the first book, ...

ESTES PARK, Colo. — A family visiting Colorado from Illinois made an unsettling discovery during what was supposed to be ...

They're now trying to identify human remains from the 19th century, a rare endeavor that will include searching for living descendants and requesting swabs of DNA.

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

The Manitoba Museum has issued a formal apology to First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities for keeping remains and associated belongings in its collections, promising the museum will never ...

Gilcrease Museum continues to return Native American remains and associated items from tribes under NAGPRA. The collection includes 64 'ancestors' and other objects from various sources.

They’re now trying to identify human remains from the 19th century, a rare endeavor that will include searching for living descendants and requesting swabs of DNA.