Mummified flesh, preserved for centuries, seemed an obvious candidate for treating decay, wounds and internal deterioration.

The history of medicine is filled with remedies that, viewed through a modern lens, seem perplexing, misguided or downright macabre. Among these is ...

Responding officers confirmed the bones appeared to be human remains, Roxeanne Vainuku, the department's deputy director of ...

A Utah fisherman found what appears to be a human skull, authorities said. Shortly after 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 25, a man — later identified as Phillip Morfin — was fishing near a business ...

An angler spotted something strange near the edge of a pond where he was fishing in Utah — and after investigating with his ...

An angler noticed something strange in the mud at the edge of a Utah pond — and realized it was human bones, police said ... he saw what “looked like a skull” that he initially thought ...

In vertebrates, the skeleton of different regions of the body arises from different precursor cells. Researchers at the ...

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

The Museum has established the deceased's tribal heritage and is proceeding with the steps toward repatriating the remains.

The ancestors of humans started making tools about 3.3 million years ago. First they made them out of stone, then they switched to bone as a raw material. Until recently, the earliest clear evidence ...