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These Aren’t Your Pharoah’s Mummies

“Everybody Loves Raymond” stars Ray Romano and Brad Garrett reunited on the Emmys stage for a hilariously depressing bit ...

12,000-Year-Old Mummies Reveal Evidence Of Human Mummification

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practised by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and ...

Smoke-dried mummies — more than 10,000 years old — unearthed in southeast Asia

But unlike Egypt or Chile, where extensive mummies have been uncovered, that have dry environments where the drying out can occur naturally, southeast Asia is humid, hot and wet, according to the ...

World’s oldest mummies found in China and Southeast Asia

The world's oldest mummies found in China and Southeast Asia, 10,000 years ago smoke drying corpses, new research indicates.

Smoke-dried bodies the oldest-known evidence of deliberate human mummification, study claims

Archaeologists claim they've found the oldest-known deliberately mummified remains in burial sites across China and ...

Scientists discover world’s earliest evidence of human mummification

The samples, discovered in southern China, Vietnam and Indonesia, represent the oldest known examples of mummification. They ...

Smoke-dried human remains found in Asia may be world's oldest known mummies, researchers say

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...
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Earliest evidence of smoke-dried mummification: More than 10,000 years ago in southern China and Southeast Asia

This finding documents smoke-dried mummification of the dead, mostly in tightly bound crouched postures, from archaeological ...
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Scientists stunned after finding 'world's oldest mummies' - predating ancient Egypt by 10,000 YEARS

Mummies dating back 14,000 years, thought to be among the oldest in the world, have been discovered by archaeologists in ...