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 ...

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 ...

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 Human Mummies Discovered, And They're Not What We Expected

That's several thousands of years older than the cultures best known for mummification, the Chinchorro people of Chile, who ...

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

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

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.

Ancient skull from China may shake up timeline of human evolution

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...
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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 ...
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Ancient human fossils in Antarctica puzzle researchers

In a turn of events that has left the scientific community in a state of shock and intrigue, the oldest human remains ever discovered have been unearthed from the frosty expanses of Antarctica. This ...