Africa | Antarctica | Arctic | Asia | Australia/Oceania | Caribbean | Central America | Europe | Islands of the World Middle East | North America | South America | World Atlas | WIN $100 here BRAZIL A Brief Description Fast Facts Flag Landforms Lat/Long Links Maps Time Traveler Info Weather PRINT THIS MAP A Brief Description Native American peoples (by the millions) occupied this region of South America for eons. Then in 1500, the Portuguese navigator Pedro Alvares C ...

Home | Subsccribe | News | Shop | TV | Events | Links | Contact | Free Info | Advertise | Search A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America Oldest North American Mummy Volume 49 Number 5, September/October 1996 by Lara J. Asher A mummy excavated in 1940 and stored at the Nevada State Museum in Carson City was recently dated to ca. 7420 B.C., making it the oldest mummy ever discovered in North America. Donald Tuohy and Amy Dansie of the Nevada State Museum say t ...

Cover Story Scalping Science Sensitivity Run Amok May Silence the Spirit Cave Mummy Forever by D. Dowd Muska n 1940 two archeologists entered a cave in northwest Nevada, 13 miles east of Fallon. Inside they unearthed a mummified corpse. As unique as their find was, the archeologists did not have the tools to recognize its true significance. In the decades that Artist's rendering of the Spirit Cave burial site click for larger version followed, the Spirit Cave Mummy, as the body ca ...