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

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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

Archaeologists have uncovered ancient bones in a Vietnamese cave. The remains may belong to one of the world’s earliest ...

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