If you’ve not been following the saga of the three-fingered Peruvian mummy that Jaime Maussan and colleagues have been touting, you’ve got some catching up to do, and Paul Seaburn’s the one to go to. It seems that Mummy #1 is a female, nicknamed “Maria” by the research team, while Mummy #2 has been dubbed […]

Speaking for the first time since Darren Byrne was jailed for life after being convicted of murdering her daughter, Linda Biggs (pictured), 64, is struggling to piece her life back together.

Could this be a case of mistaken identity and overactive imaginations, or has this meditating mummy gotten up to stretch his legs? We leave it to you to decide if he’s still meditating after all these years or just pining for the fjords. Also this morning we found an intriguing story from Greg Taylor on […]

DNA samples from three indigenous groups in northern Siberia are to be taken. They will be matched against the child (pictured) found close to the town of Salekhard.

Seeker (registration) (blog) 'Roswell Alien' Photo Likely a Baby MummySeeker (registration) (blog)Earlier this week at a UFO conference in Mexico City two photographs claimed to have been found in a trunk in Sedona, Ariz., and depicting an alien body that crashed in Roswell in 1947 were revealed. It has created quite a buzz among UFO […]

Earlier this week at a UFO conference in Mexico City two photographs claimed to have been found in a trunk in Sedona, Ariz., and depicting an alien body that crashed in Roswell in 1947 were revealed. It has created quite a buzz among UFO believers and …

Samples taken from the mummy, which was discovered in the Tuli block of Botswana in 2008, were recently examined in dedicated ancient DNA laboratories in Zurich. What they discovered, said researcher Professor Maryna Steyn of Wits University, was that …

Now a team of scientists from Botswana, South Africa and Switzerland has used computerised tomography (CT) scanning and ancient DNA analysis to uncover some of the Tuli mummy's secrets. The Conversation Africa's science and technology editor …

If confirmed, the study by Tel Aviv University would shed new light on the debate over how important processed food, physical inactivity and other modern lifestyle factors are on the disease.

If the words “alien mummy” cause you to tut and sigh, hold back a moment and have a read of this piece by Greg Newkirk, who recounts the forgotten but entertaining tale of NC furniture salesman, Ralph Lael. In 1961 he claimed to have found a cave in the Brown Mountains which was crowded with […]