By contrast, mummies found in Egypt typically date back to about 4,500 years ago, and mummies from northern Chile — typically ...
Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...
The human remains predate Chile's Chinchorro mummies and the famously preserved pharaohs of ancient Egypt by millennia ...
The world’s oldest mummies have been found in burial sites in China and Vietnam, scientists have said. Previously, the oldest ...
An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would have dried out and preserved the bodies.
The skeleton, known as TBH1, had a rib injury thought to be caused by a sharp projectile and eventually succumbed to ...
The skull was shattered by a rock falling from the cave ceiling, but it was still sufficient to reconstruct nearly the entire ...
It was on a sweltering morning in 2018 in a cave in northern Vietnam when Chris Stimpson and his team uncovered what may be the oldest cold case murder in South-East Asia.
(CNN) — A well-preserved human skeleton that scientists recently excavated in Vietnam dates back about 12,000 years ago to the Ice Age and contains the oldest human mitochondrial DNA found in the ...
New analysis of a 140,000-year-old skull morphologically resembling modern humans and Neanderthals may be the earliest ...