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 ...

New Research Finds Oldest Human Mummies were Smoke-Dried

Southeast Asian people mummified their died by smoke-drying them, creating 14,000-year-old mummies that are twice as old as ...
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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 ...

Smoke-dried human remains found in Asia may be world's oldest known mummies, researchers say

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...
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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 ...
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Smoke-dried mummies — more than 10,000 years old — unearthed in southeast Asia

But unlike Egypt or Chile, where extensive mummies have been uncovered, that have dry environments where the drying out can occur naturally, southeast Asia is humid, hot and wet, according to the ...

Dark Truth About Ancient Egypt's Mummification

The Ancient Egyptians had a very different idea about death than most people do today. And the idea of mummification is (excuse the pun) wrapped up in so many modern ideas, that we can lose its real ...