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

The world’s oldest mummies have been found in burial sites in China and Vietnam, scientists have said. Previously, the oldest known mummies were made by the Chinchorro people in Chile and Peru about 7 ...

The discovery of suspected “alien mummies” in Peru has generated fresh excitement after a lawyer declared that their fingerprints are “not human”. Two of the humanoid figures were unveiled to the ...

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

Previously, the oldest known mummies had been found not in Egypt but in modern-day Peru and Chile, where they were prepared by a fishing people called the Chinchorro about 7,000 years ago. A leading ...

The world’s oldest mummies, found in China and Southeast Asia, 10,000 years ago smoke drying corpses, new research indicates. Photo by Bill Greenblatt /UPI Sept. 16 (UPI) --Scientists discovered what ...

But the practice of artificially preserving bodies shows up in archaeological records around the world. Now, a new study suggests that mummification dates back much earlier, to some of the first human ...

Mummies are most often associated with Egypt, where the oldest ones are about 4,500 years old. But researchers say they have found mummies that are much older, on the other side of the world. “We ...