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 ...

'We're repairing a damaged Egyptian mummy on our uni course'

During the 19th Century the mummified man, known as Pa-Sheri, was taken from Egypt to Britain and has been part of the Derby ...
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Goodbye to what we thought about Egypt – world’s oldest mummies found in Asia, changing history

It may be Rachel Weinz and Brendan Fraser's fault, but whenever we think of mummies, we can't help but imagine Egypt. This ...
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 ...

Pharaoh's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings reopens to the public after 2-decade renovation

The huge tomb of Amenhotep III, who ruled ancient Egypt between 1390 B.C. and 1350 B.C., is carved into the hillside on the ...
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Has Nefertiti Finally Been Found? The Mummy That Could Rewrite Egyptian History

For more than a century, archaeologists have searched for the legendary Queen Nefertiti, Egypt’s most mysterious ruler. Now, ...

Scientists Have Found the World’s Oldest Known Mummies — and They Are Thousands of Years Older Than the Ones in Egypt

Scientists revealed they have discovered the world’s oldest known mummies. A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science on Sept. 15 states that researchers found ...
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DNA extracted from an ancient skeleton in a pot is a genetic mixture of two distinct worlds

Ancient DNA from an Egyptian genome has been sequenced for the first time, revealing genetic links to the Fertile Crescent.
Smithsonian Magazine

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 ...