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

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

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

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

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.

Forty-nine years after skeletal remains of a young woman were found in the Wolf Creek area near Swamp Mountain in Oregon, ...

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

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

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence suggesting the world’s oldest mummies may have been created in Southeast Asia, dating ...

At the Hang Muoi cave in Vietnam, a charred clavicle was dated to around 14,000 years ago. That makes it—so far—the oldest ...

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