Researchers found significant similarities between prehistoric remains found in Southeast Asia and modern smoke-dried mummies ...

A groundbreaking discovery in Antarctica has left scientists both amazed and baffled: the oldest human remains ever found.

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

Southeast Asian people mummified their died by smoke-drying them, creating 14,000-year-old mummies that are twice as old as ...

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

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would ...

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

The date for the earliest mummification of human remains has been pushed back thousands of years thanks to new research that solved a nagging question.

Evidence of early human mummification has proven the existence of preservation practices far earlier than previously believed ...

For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death by being smoke-dried – a ...

Despite being most commonly associated with Egypt, mummification appears to have been going on long before and far away.