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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would ...

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

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 researchers analyzed 483 mammoth remains, mostly molars but also tusks and bones. The oldest samples are 1.1 million years old and belonged to a steppe mammoth — a species that later gave rise to ...