(CNN) — Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a ...

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practised by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and beyond as far back as 12,000 years ago, my colleagues and I report in new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skeleton of a middle-aged man excavated from the Huiyaotian site in Nanning, in China's Guangxi province, is over 9,000 years ...