The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

A discovery in Peru has captivated scientists and conspiracy theorists alike since 2015, when a grave digger uncovered mummified bodies inside a cave. These unusual remains, notable for having three ...

Mummies are most often associated with Egypt, where the oldest ones are about 4,500 years old. But researchers say they have found mummies that are much older, on the other side of the world. “We ...

"An appropriate ornament of the operating room" : Padihershef and the beginnings of mummymania in nineteenth-century America -- "As cheap as candidates for the presidency" : Egyptian mummies in early ...

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

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