Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a new ...

The evidence of the oldest mummy on Earth proved the existence of a deliberate process of burial. Asian hunter-gatherers smoked and dried the bodies up until up to 14,000 years ago, before they were ...

This is a human-written story voiced by AI. Got feedback? Take our survey. (See our AI policy here.) Southeast Asians created the oldest known human mummies roughly 7,000 years before Egyptian mummies ...