In 2014, locals near Zimapán, Mexico discovered a mummy in an ancient rock shelter. Scientists believe that the Zimapán man ...

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

Mummifying the dead is a funerary rite that has been practiced for thousands of years in many locations across the world.

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier than their Egyptian counterparts, new research has found.

Southeast Asian groups mummified bodies over smoky fires before burying them as early as 12,000 years ago, long before Egyptians began making mummies.

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Meet the Zimapán man, a mummy from the Mesoamerican Otopame culture, whose intestines bustled with bacteria, around a millennium ago.

One of the most significant finds was uncovered at the Con Co Ngua site in Vietnam, where archaeologists discovered a total of 267 pre-Neolithic burials. The location seems to challenge assertions ...

Researchers analyzed 54 skeletons from 11 sites, detecting prolonged low-temperature heating and tightly bound 'fetal' postures consistent with deliberate processing before burial.

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

Researchers consider the discovered remains to be mummies because they were deliberately mummified through smoke-drying, even ...