Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

By contrast, mummies found in Egypt typically date back to about 4,500 years ago, and mummies from northern Chile — typically considered some of the oldest on earth — date back to approximately 7,000 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The world's oldest mummies found in China and Southeast Asia, 10,000 years ago smoke drying corpses, new research indicates.

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

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