Scientists Have Found the World’s Oldest Known Mummies — and They Are Thousands of Years Older Than the Ones in Egypt

By contrast, mummies found in Egypt typically date back to about 4,500 years ago, and mummies from northern Chile — typically ...

Scientists say they've found the world's oldest mummies, and they're far from Egypt

Human remains found in tightly crouched postures at pre-Neolithic burial sites in China and Southeast Asia appear to have ...

Oldest mummified remains discovered in Southeast Asia, scientists say

Scientists have discovered what's thought to be the oldest mummies in the world in southeastern Asia. Mummification prevents ...

Oldest known evidence of human mummification discovered in Asia, scientists say

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would ...
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"The Body Is Slowly And Continuously Heated": 14,000-Year-Old Smoked Mummies Are World’s Oldest

Using techniques like X-ray diffraction and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, the authors of a new study examined 54 ...
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What the smell of mummies tells us about Ancient Egypt

Perhaps "woody, spicy, and sweet" aren't the first words you would associate with Ancient Egypt... or mummies. But for ...

World’s oldest human mummies were smoke-dried 10,000 years ago, new research shows

The world’s oldest human mummies were preserved using smoke drying techniques 10,000 years ago, new research has found. A study of dozens of corpses found across 11 burial sites in Southeast Asia and ...
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About 30 Egyptian mummies found in ancient cache

CAIRO, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists have found about 30 mummies and at least one unopened sarcophagus in a burial chamber about 4,300 years old, the government said in a statement on ...

ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel over Charlie Kirk comments and Israel's real estate plans for Gaza: Morning Rundown

ABC pulls “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” off the air. Israel’s finance minister describes plans to turn Gaza into a “real estate bonanza” as bombs hammer the area. And the ousted CDC director warns of changes ...