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.

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 ...

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

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

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.

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

That's several thousands of years older than the cultures best known for mummification, the Chinchorro people of Chile, who ...

For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death by being smoke-dried – a tradition that continues to this day in some cultures ...

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

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