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

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

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

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

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

Libya's civil war has placed the Uan Muhuggiag mummy at risk. But negotiations are underway to transport the rare artifact ...

One of the most significant finds was uncovered at the Con Co Ngua site in Vietnam, where archaeologists discovered a total ...

But the practice of artificially preserving bodies shows up in archaeological records around the world. Now, a new study suggests that mummification dates back much earlier, to some of the first human ...

Southeast Asian groups mummified bodies over smoky fires before burying them as early as 12,000 years ago, long before Egyptians began making mummies.

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

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

A 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummy has been taken to Lincoln for restoration work. During the 19th Century the mummified man, ...