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

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

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

Scientists have uncovered 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara that appear to belong to a mysterious lineage unlike any seen ...

Scientists revealed they have discovered the world’s oldest known mummies. A new study published in the journal Proceedings ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm.

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

Human remains were found in crouched positions, often with scorch marks - Hirofumi Matsumura The world’s oldest mummies have been found in burial sites in China and Vietnam, scientists have said.

The world's oldest mummies found in China and Southeast Asia, 10,000 years ago smoke drying corpses, new research indicates.

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 ...