Archaeologists have uncovered ancient bones in a Vietnamese cave. The remains may belong to one of the world’s earliest ...

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

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

A fossilized toe bone from South Africa shows that cancer afflicted early human ancestors 1.7 million years ago. Evidence ...

That's several thousands of years older than the cultures best known for mummification, the Chinchorro people of Chile, who ...

The human bones found in the Thames are concentrated at the end of the prehistoric period, suggesting that they are ritual ...

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practised by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and ...

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practiced by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and ...

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...

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 ...

The human remains predate Chile's Chinchorro mummies and the famously preserved pharaohs of ancient Egypt by millennia ...

For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death by being smoke-dried – a ...