One of the museum's most well-known mummified remains is that of Lady Chenet-aa, who lived 3,000 years ago. The scans showed ...

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

A mobile CT scanner parked outside the Field Museum has given researchers the opportunity to see inside ancient mummies.

For some 37,000 years, the soft, furry body of a three-week-old saber-toothed 'kitten' lay cradled by Arctic permafrost, its ...

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(CNN) — Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History have peered beneath the wrappings of ancient Egyptian mummified human remains to uncover new details about their identities and ...