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Children Among 40 Mummies Found in Egyptian Tombs

Archaeologists have uncovered 40 perfectly preserved mummies — including 10 children — in the desert province of Minya, Egypt. Found inside ancient tombs, the discovery spans the Ptolemaic to ...
Live Science

Scientists have digitally removed the 'death masks' from four Colombian mummies, revealing their faces for the first time

The reconstructions are based on the skulls of four mummified individuals who had masks tightly fitted on their faces.
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Scientists find earliest evidence of mummification in Asia

Scientists have unearthed what they believe to be the oldest known evidence of human mummification in Southeast Asia. The ...

The family who hid a dead body in their house for six weeks

Their Yorkshire home hit the headlines in 2018 after a mummified corpse was found, yet the reclusive Japanese family still ...
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Mummy Mia: USU anthropologists present research on mummified remains

As part of Utah State University’s Science Unwrapped program, anthropologists Sascha Baldauf and Molly Cannon presented their ...
NBC New York

Scientists say they've found the world's oldest mummies, and they're far from Egypt

Mummies are most often associated with Egypt, where the oldest ones are about 4,500 years old. But researchers say they have found mummies that are much older, on the other side of the world. “We ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Earliest evidence of smoke-dried mummification: More than 10,000 years ago in southern China and Southeast Asia

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

Smoke-dried mummies — more than 10,000 years old — unearthed in southeast Asia

Tightly packed human remains in odd positions were likely smoked and mummified in ancient southeast Asia. Hung, et al (2025) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences As the spooky season ...