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 ...

Smoke-dried human remains found in Asia may be world's oldest known mummies, researchers say

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

Oldest known evidence of human mummification discovered in Asia, scientists say

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would ...
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The oldest human mummies were slowly smoked 14,000 years ago

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

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.

Could the world’s oldest mummies have come from Asia?

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

Mummies found in China 9,500 years older than those in Egypt

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

Scientists say they've found the world's oldest mummies, and they're far from Egypt

Mummies are most often associated with Egypt, but researchers say they have found mummies that are much older, on the other ...

Mummies found in southeast Asia could be world's oldest, as scientists say they date back 12,000 years

Scientists found that the bodies were likely exposed to heat and suggested they had been smoke-dried over a fire and ...
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Human remains identified as woman last seen at Tigard mall in 1974

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