Photo: Mummies With Lice Offer New Clues to Human Migration

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Two mummies from the Chiribaya civilization are displayed in El Algarrobal museum in southern Peru in 2006.

A new study of head lice taken from two Chiribaya mummies suggests that the pesky parasitic insects accompanied modern humans on their first migration out of Africa, according to scientists.

Photograph by Mariana Bazo/Reuters

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