Southeast Asian people mummified their died by smoke-drying them, creating 14,000-year-old mummies that are twice as old as the oldest previously known.

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

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.

Some even hailed them as evidence of the “oldest human habit related to oral hygiene.” They have been documented throughout ...

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...

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

The world’s oldest human mummies were preserved using smoke drying techniques 10,000 years ago, new research has found. A ...

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 ...

Scientists believe that 300,000 years ago in Lower Saxony, Homo heidelbergensis shared space with a now-extinct species of elephants ( Palaeoloxodon antiquus) along a lakeshore, thanks to newly ...