A new study has found that Asia preserved the dead as mummies thousands of years before Egypt did. This research is being ...

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

Southeast Asian people mummified their died by smoke-drying them, creating 14,000-year-old mummies that are twice as old as ...

At the Hang Muoi cave in Vietnam, a charred clavicle was dated to around 14,000 years ago. That makes it—so far—the oldest ...

Evidence of early human mummification has proven the existence of preservation practices far earlier than previously believed ...

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 ...

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...

Scientists are using high-tech tools to help solve the mystery of how the Canary Islands came to be inhabited. This mummy once rested in a fabled Tenerife cave whose location was lost to history, ...

Old friends, new tales : the mummies and coffins of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science / Michele L. Koons -- A history of research and exploring new narratives : contextualizing the Denver Museum ...

Next week, they plan to make museum history in that quest. For the first time, the Putnam’s two mummies — described as being among the Davenport museum’s most prized and popular possessions — will be ...