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Mummies

100 Wonders: A Visit with a Frozen Dead Guy

Dylan Thuras January 7, 2016

Sarcofagi of Carajía

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

Guthrie, Oklahoma

Oklahoma Territorial Museum & The Carnegie Library

Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.

Permanently Closed

Batac, Philippines

Marcos Museum and Mausoleum

The late, disgraced President's embalmed remains displayed for all to see… theoretically.

100 Wonders: The Head of Jeremy Bentham

Dylan Thuras September 1, 2015

Egyptmania: A Festivity for the Pharaohs Roundup

FOUND: A Baby Buried With a Bishop 350 Years Ago

Sarah Laskow June 22, 2015

Saying Goodbye To Your Favorite Mummy

Molly Gleeson April 27, 2015

The Morbid Journey of Cromwell's Traveling Head

Dolly Stolze November 24, 2014

A Mummy Hoax Might Be Wrapped up in a Modern Murder

Dolly Stolze November 17, 2014

Morbid Monday: The Macabre Romance of a Man and a Mummy

Using plaster of Paris, wires, mortician’s wax, and glass eyes, Tanzler brought Elena “back to life,” and proceeded to take her to his home where the pair shared a marital bed.

Jessica Guerra October 27, 2014

San Diego, California

San Diego Museum of Us

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Boston's Ancient Necropolis Worker with a Broom Handle Neck

Dolly Stolze June 23, 2014

Essential Guide to Waking Nightmares

Allison Meier June 13, 2014

The Mummies of Mexico City

Elizabeth Harper April 23, 2014

Mexico City, Mexico

The Mummies at Museo de El Carmen

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

At the Center of Russian Buddhism, a Festival Reveals an Undead Lama

Zand Martin February 27, 2014

Soap on a Bone: How Corpse Wax Forms

Dolly Stolze February 17, 2014