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.

When we think of mummies, we tend to imagine embalmed pharaohs, massive pyramids and buried treasure in Ancient Egypt. That was before we learned of the smoked mummies of Southeast Asia, which are ...

A new study may be rewriting what we thought we knew about the mummy. While Egypt and Chile usually steal the spotlight, a team of scientists now believes the world’s oldest mummies could actually ...

The world’s oldest human mummies were preserved using smoke drying techniques 10,000 years ago, new research has found. A study of dozens of corpses found across 11 burial sites in Southeast Asia and ...

For more than a century, archaeologists have searched for the legendary Queen Nefertiti, Egypt’s most mysterious ruler. Now, ...

Haunting photos captured the final poses of a handful of Persian salt mine workers whose remains languished inside a salt mine for thousands of years before they were unearthed. The six corpses – ...

Well, that’s a wrap. It looks like heart disease and stroke aren’t just modern phenomena but instead have been around a long time. Like a really long time. CT scans of 237 adult mummies found evidence ...

The bodies were arranged into crouched positions, then propped over or placed near a fire to slowly dehydrate. Australian National University New research suggests the world’s oldest mummies aren’t ...

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 ...

Mummification was a sacred ritual of the ancient Egyptians, who called their mummified dead “noble ones.” But when mummies started showing up as supernatural archfiends in Victorian horror novels and ...