Mummifying the dead is a funerary rite that has been practiced for thousands of years in many locations across the world.

The Theopetra Cave in central Greece housed a stone wall, which could be the oldest surviving structure ever found, that was ...

A stone wall discovered deep inside Theopetra Cave in central Greece may be the oldest surviving human-built structure ever uncovered, archaeologists have revealed. Estimated to be over 23,000 years ...

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would have dried out and preserved the bodies.

In a new study, an international research team found that pre-Neolithic people in Southeast Asia were mummifying their died by smoke-drying them. This would make them the oldest human mummies made ...

Archaeologists in China found a collection of human bones that showed signs of being "worked" like any other natural material ...

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier than their Egyptian counterparts, new research has found.

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For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death by being smoke-dried – a ...