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Goodbye to what we thought about Egypt – world’s oldest mummies found in Asia, changing history

It may be Rachel Weinz and Brendan Fraser's fault, but whenever we think of mummies, we can't help but imagine Egypt. This ...

Scientists Recreated the Smell of Ancient Mummies

Analytical chemists successfully reproduced the smells of Ancient Egyptian mummies—without ever having to touch the artifacts ...

World's oldest mummies found in China and Southeast Asia

The world's oldest mummies found in China and Southeast Asia, 10,000 years ago smoke drying corpses, new research indicates.
The Nature Network on MSN

How Did Egyptians Make Mummies?

Mummies feel mysterious, but to ancient Egyptians, the process was a carefully developed practice rooted in belief and ritual, and […] ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The World’s Oldest Mummies Might Be These Smoke-Dried, 12,000-Year-Old Skeletons From Southeast Asia

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

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 ...

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

Human remains found in tightly crouched postures at pre-Neolithic burial sites in China and Southeast Asia appear to have ...

Scientists discover world’s earliest 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 ...
Daily Express US on MSN

Archaeology breakthrough as scientists find ‘world's oldest mummies' in unexpected place

One of the most significant finds was uncovered at the Con Co Ngua site in Vietnam, where archaeologists discovered a total ...