Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A modern, heavily bent mummy from the Dani people, preserved by smoke and kept in a private home in the Baliem Valley. These are ...

Archaeologists excavating a site in Aswan, Egypt, found 33 tombs with mummies and artifacts from the Greco-Roman period over 1,300 years ago. Photo from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Researchers examined four frozen mummies recovered from the Ampato and Sara Sara volcanoes in southern Peru during the 1990s using CT scans.

Archaeologists have identified what is believed to be the earliest known evidence of human mummification, predating those found in ancient Egypt by thousands of years. Published in the Proceedings of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skeleton of a middle-aged man excavated from the Huiyaotian site in Nanning, in China's Guangxi province, is over 9,000 years ...