Scientists have discovered what's thought to be the oldest mummies in the world in southeastern Asia. Mummification prevents ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known mummies in burial sites in Southeast Asia and China. Some of the mummies found may be 12,000 years old, making them approximately 7,500 years older ...

By the time the ancient Egyptians were wrapping their dead in linens and sealing them in golden tombs, a very different kind ...

Libya's civil war has placed the Uan Muhuggiag mummy at risk. But negotiations are underway to transport the rare artifact ...

People in parts of ancient Southeast Asia prepared the dead for burial by smoke-drying the bodies, a practice that went back ...

Mummifying the dead is a funerary rite that has been practiced for thousands of years in many locations across the world.

Researchers consider the discovered remains to be mummies because they were deliberately mummified through smoke-drying, even ...

Mummies are most often associated with Egypt, but researchers say they have found mummies that are much older, on the other ...

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

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