BERGAMO, Italy, June 22 – Ancient Egypt met modern medical technology when a mummy underwent a CT scan at an Italian hospital as part of a research project to discover its secrets. The mummy of ...

Ancient Egyptians weren't the only people fond of mummification; the elite of southern Italy during the 17th and 18th centuries also had a penchant for it. Recently, an international team of ...

He hasn’t talked for 53 centuries, but Otzi the Iceman may be about to break his silence. Italian researchers in the northern city of Bolzano are working to recreate the 5,300-year-old man’s voice.

Forensic scientists in Italy have uncovered a mummy murder mystery. A Renaissance-era warlord who dropped dead in 1329 wasn't killed by a nasty stomach illness, as had been previously suspected; he ...

(SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR OF MUMMY PROJECT RESEARCH, SABINA MALGORA, SAYING:"It's a sort of virtual autopsy. We can do a sort of fly through inside the mummy so we can study the mummy, we can ...

BERGAMO, Italy (Reuters) – Ancient Egypt met modern medical technology when a mummy underwent a CT scan at an Italian hospital as part of a research project to discover its secrets. The mummy of ...