The Tarim Basin Mummies have long been a mystery to experts, as they were located buried in boats, in an uninhabitable desert area of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in northwest China.

A frozen burial site in southern Siberia has just given up one of its oldest secrets — and it was hiding in plain sight, just ...

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

Tightly packed human remains in odd positions were likely smoked and mummified in ancient southeast Asia. Hung, et al (2025) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences As the spooky season ...