The human remains predate Chile's Chinchorro mummies and the famously preserved pharaohs of ancient Egypt by millennia ...

When we think of mummies, we tend to imagine embalmed pharaohs, massive pyramids and buried treasure in Ancient Egypt. That ...

The world’s oldest mummies have been found in burial sites in China and Vietnam, scientists have said. Previously, the oldest ...

Long before the famous Egyptian mummies, prehistoric communities had already developed body preservation techniques. About 10,000 years ago, in China and Southeast Asia, human groups ...

Some ancient societies in China and Southeast Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them ...

Archaeologists claim they've found the oldest-known deliberately mummified remains in burial sites across China and ...

In the hushed halls of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the air isn’t just thick with history. A new study has for the first ...

We know what they look like, and even sound like, but there’s one question you might not have pondered: what do ancient Egyptian mummies smell like? Whether you wanted to know or not, scientists have ...

The world’s oldest human mummies were preserved using smoke drying techniques 10,000 years ago, new research has found. A ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm.

The bracelet, described as a golden band adorned with "spherical lapis lazuli beads," belonged to King Amenemope, a pharaoh ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - A grand parade conveyed 22 ancient Egyptian royal mummies in special capsules across the capital Cairo on Saturday to a new museum home where they can be displayed in greater ...