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

Human remains found in tightly crouched postures at pre-Neolithic burial sites in China and Southeast Asia appear to have ...

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

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

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 ...

Mummifying the dead is a funerary rite that has been practiced for thousands of years in many locations across the world.

By contrast, mummies found in Egypt typically date back to about 4,500 years ago, and mummies from northern Chile — typically considered some of the oldest on earth — date back to approximately 7,000 ...

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.

The human remains predate Chile's Chinchorro mummies and the famously preserved pharaohs of ancient Egypt by millennia ...

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