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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 ...

Mummies found in China 9,500 years older than those in Egypt

The world’s oldest mummies have been found in burial sites in China and Vietnam, scientists have said. Previously, the oldest ...

Smoked-dried mummification practise created world's oldest mummies

When we think of mummies, we tend to imagine embalmed pharaohs, massive pyramids and buried treasure in Ancient Egypt. That ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The World’s Oldest Mummies Might Be These Smoke-Dried, 12,000-Year-Old Skeletons From Southeast Asia

The human remains predate Chile's Chinchorro mummies and the famously preserved pharaohs of ancient Egypt by millennia ...
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Africa’s Oldest Mummy Is a Toddler Who Died 5,400 Years Ago, Nearly a Millennium Before the Egyptians Started Mummifying Their Dead

Libya's civil war has placed the Uan Muhuggiag mummy at risk. But negotiations are underway to transport the rare artifact ...
Samaa TV

Ancient smoke-drying burial practice older than Egyptian mummification

However, researchers focused on remains recovered from humid regions, including China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Curtis Ryan Woodside on MSN

King Tut Mummy Reconstruction (Tutankhamun) Ancient Egypt

A composite reconstruction at 3 stages of life, of KING TUT. Tutankhamun (king tut) son of akhenaten died around 1324 b.c. aged aprox 19, ruled of 10+- years he restored the old gods. Over his 10 ...
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What Do Ancient Egyptian Mummies Smell Like? “Woody”, “Spicy” and Even “Sweet”

In the hushed halls of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the air isn’t just thick with history. A new study has for the first ...

12,000-year-old smoked mummies reveal world's earliest evidence of human mummification

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practiced by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and ...
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The World’s Oldest Mummies Were Smoked, Not Dried in the Desert

At the Hang Muoi cave in Vietnam, a charred clavicle was dated to around 14,000 years ago. That makes it—so far—the oldest ...

Oldest known evidence of human mummification discovered in Asia, scientists say

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

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.