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

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

In the hushed halls of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the air isn’t just thick with history. A new study has for the first ...

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

When we think of mummies, we tend to imagine embalmed pharaohs, massive pyramids and buried treasure in Ancient Egypt. That ...

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

The world’s oldest human mummies were preserved using smoke drying techniques 10,000 years ago, new research has found. A ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: KriveArt/Getty Images The ancient Egyptians were not the first culture to mummify their ...

Long before the famous Egyptian mummies, prehistoric communities had already developed body preservation techniques. About 10,000 years ago, in China and Southeast Asia, human groups ...

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

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 studying ancient mummies were able to determine the odors of them. The team assessed smells of the mummies at a museum in Egypt. Some of the mummies evaluated for their scents were 5,000 ...