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

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

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

Previously, the oldest known mummies were made by the Chinchorro people in Chile and Peru about 7,000 years ago, and the ...

Southeast Asian groups mummified bodies over smoky fires before burying them as early as 12,000 years ago, long before Egyptians began making mummies.

Researchers consider the discovered remains to be mummies because they were deliberately mummified through smoke-drying, even though their soft tissue was not preserved.

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