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 ...
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World's oldest mummies were smoke-dried 10,000 years ago in China and Southeast Asia, researchers find

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