Smoke-dried bodies could be world's 'oldest mummies': Study

Some ancient societies in China and Southeast Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them ...

Scientists Have Found the World’s Oldest Known Mummies — and They Are Thousands of Years Older Than the Ones in Egypt

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 ...
Prescott eNews

Oldest mummified remains discovered in Southeast Asia, scientists say – Associated Press

This undated combination photo provided by Hirofumi Matsumura shows a crouched mummy in Guangxi, China, with burn marks on ...

Archaeologists rewrite human history after making 12,000 year old discovery

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

New Research Finds Oldest Human Mummies were Smoke-Dried

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

These Smoked Human Remains May be the Oldest Mummies Known to Science

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

The World’s Oldest Mummies Were Smoked, Not Dried in the Desert

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 ...

Not Egypt, not Peru: the world’s oldest mummies were discovered in this surprising region

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.

Scientists say they’ve discovered the oldest mummies ever found

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

Study: Malaysia among sites where world’s oldest mummies, dating back 12,000 years, discovered in South-east Asia

Scientists have uncovered what are believed to be the world’s oldest known mummies in South-east Asia, dating back as far as ...