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World’s oldest human mummies were smoke-dried 10,000 years ago, new research shows

The world’s oldest human mummies were preserved using smoke drying techniques 10,000 years ago, new research has found. A ...

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

Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting ...

Scientists discover world’s earliest evidence of human mummification

The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago. Most companies are about as prepared for ...
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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Could the world’s oldest mummies have come from Asia?

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence suggesting the world’s oldest mummies may have been created in Southeast Asia, dating ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Earliest evidence of smoke-dried mummification: More than 10,000 years ago in southern China and Southeast Asia

This finding documents smoke-dried mummification of the dead, mostly in tightly bound crouched postures, from archaeological ...
La Brújula Verde

Surprising Discovery in Spain: Cremation Was Practiced in the Copper Age a Millennium and a Half Before the First Evidence of This Practice

The history of funerary rites in the Prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula has just been radically rewritten following the analysis of findings made in the Los Milanes megalithic necropolis, in the ...