The body of the middle-aged man who died around 3300 B.C. would become known as Ötzi or the Iceman who revealed what everyday ...

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Pharaoh siptah, son of seti ii, great grandson of ramses ii, died around 1191 bc , aprox age: 16 to 20. Co-ruled for 6 years ...

I worked on this reconstruction based off of the Young Prince's mummy. His body is exceptionally well preserved & has many of ...

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

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

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

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...

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Archaeologists in Peru announced they found the 5,000-year-old remains of a noblewoman at the sacred city of Caral, in an area which for decades was used as a garbage dump. The new discovery revealed ...

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would ...