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.

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 ...

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

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence suggesting the world’s oldest mummies may have been created in Southeast Asia, dating ...

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

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By the time the ancient Egyptians were wrapping their dead in linens and sealing them in golden tombs, a very different kind of preservation was already widespread across tropical Southeast Asia.

A new study suggests that the people of ancient southern China and Southeast Asia practiced mummification by curing bodies ...