A new study suggests that the people of ancient southern China and Southeast Asia practiced mummification by curing bodies ...
The constant temperature and low humidity of a cave network in Saudi Arabia turned cheetahs, some of which died thousands of ...
Analytical chemists successfully reproduced the smells of Ancient Egyptian mummies—without ever having to touch the artifacts ...
Some ancient societies in China and Southeast Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them ...
This undated combination photo provided by Hirofumi Matsumura shows a crouched mummy in Guangxi, China, with burn marks on ...
The Grand Egyptian Museum is finally opening. We meet the CEO of Atelier Brückner, Shirin Frangoul-Brückner, who took on ...
The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm.
Long before the famous Egyptian mummies, prehistoric communities had already developed body preservation techniques. About 10,000 years ago, in China and Southeast Asia, human groups ...
People in parts of ancient Southeast Asia prepared the dead for burial by smoke-drying the bodies, a practice that went back ...
"smoked mummies" were found in Southeast Asia, rewriting the origins of mummification and revealing a cultural tradition.
Researchers found significant similarities between prehistoric remains found in Southeast Asia and modern smoke-dried mummies ...