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

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

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

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

"smoked mummies" were found in Southeast Asia, rewriting the origins of mummification and revealing a cultural tradition.

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

Despite being most commonly associated with Egypt, mummification appears to have been going on long before and far away.

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practiced by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and ...

The date for the earliest mummification of human remains has been pushed back thousands of years thanks to new research that solved a nagging question.

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

To date, tens of millions of animal mummies have been unearthed in Egypt. But while there are millions of mummified cats, dogs, ibises and birds of prey, primate mummies are rare — and little ...

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