Scientists have discovered the world’s oldest known mummies in burial sites in Southeast Asia and China. Some of the mummies found may be 12,000 years old, making them approximately 7,500 years older ...

The motif first appeared in Dunhuang in the sixth century and later spread along the ancient Silk Road to Central Asia, West ...

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A couple are selling Great Tangley Manor in Surrey, thought to be Britain’s oldest continuously inhabited home, after nearly 30 years. Anne Powell-Evans, 79, and her husband Glyn say the maintenance ...

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A small sculpture of two toads and other water-linked symbols found near the Peruvian city of Caral — once the oldest city on ...

World's oldest mummy, dating back 7,000 years, discovered in South America's Chimborazo region. Preserved by smoke and minerals, the well-preserved body challenges Egypt's mummification belief.

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 ...

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

Tsakonika, the language of ancient Sparta, still survives today, despite the ravages of time and the many reversals of ...

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