You may know Brendan Fraser as the mega Hollywood movie star with a CV boasting blockbuster hits The Mummy Returns and George of the Jungle, plus the Oscar-winning Crash. But after our chat with him yesterday, we now know Fraser as so much more …

A previously unidentified female mummy was killed in a ritual sacrifice in South America, new research has found. A team of scientists analysed the skull to find evidence of a blunt trauma to the head, suggesting she died very quickly from the blow …

CAIRO (AP) — Spanish archeologists have unearthed a 3,600-year-old mummy in the ancient city of Luxor, Egypt's Antiquities Minister said Thursday. Prosecutors accused nine people including three Germans of smuggling stone samples from pyramids.

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Esoterx cautions us that “If the last 6 people who laughed at the mummy died horrible deaths, don’t mock the mummy”. In this particular case the “mummy” is the infamous ghost ship Mary Celeste that turned up completely empty of crew and passengers floating serenely in the ocean back in 1872. The truly bizarre facts […]

After successfully remaking Frankenstein (1931) and Dracula (1931), Hammer scored again with its take on The Mummy (1932).This film, once again, reunited the winning trio of director Terence Fisher and stars Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.Story…

A shared genetic mutation in Otzi and his descendants provided the missing key to finding 19 living relatives in Austria. Is singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson also one of them? The resemblance is uncanny. It’s interesting how people who lived centuries ago (or in Otzi’s case a few thousand) have modern doppelgangers, most especially famous lookalikes that […]

Once he became a star playing the Monster in Frankenstein (1931), Boris Karloff’s career was never the same.His follow-up to that acting triumph was as the title character in this tale, which was partially inspired by…

Alexander Kettler found the ‘mummy’ inside a sarcophagus in a dark corner of the attic in Diepholz, northern Germany, after it had lain undisturbed for at least four decades.

Minister Jo Swinson attacked the ‘disgraceful’ pressure on the Duchess of Cambridge (pictured leaving hospital) to lose her post-birth weight.