A 12th-century translation error kicked off a 700-year trade in mummies, depopulating the tombs of Egypt to populate European apothecaries.

An English church wants to exhume and preserve the remains of a martyr whose head was lopped off and speared on a London ...

In a fall from a roof, the worker had a broken neck, fractured skull and a rupture in an artery that pumps blood to the brain, said his niece.

Dating back more than 4,500 years, the skeleton belonged to a middle-aged man who may have worked as a potter and likely ...

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Just because there’s a rule for how Marvel supervillains are supposed to look, that doesn’t mean all antagonists have to ...