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

That's several thousands of years older than the cultures best known for mummification, the Chinchorro people of Chile, who ...

World’s oldest human mummies were smoke-dried 10,000 years ago, new research shows - The mummies predate the famous burial ...

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

Scientists have discovered what's thought to be the oldest known mummies in the world in southeastern Asia dating back up to ...

Southeast Asian groups mummified bodies over smoky fires before burying them as early as 12,000 years ago, long before Egyptians began making mummies.

The 3.18-million-year-old bone fragments of human ancestor Lucy, which rarely leave Ethiopia, went on display in Prague on Monday, with the Czech prime minister hailing the fossils' "first ever" ...

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 million years ago, reshaping what is known about our evolution. The 13 ...