Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier than their Egyptian counterparts, new research has found.

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm. Unlike the Egyptian mummification practice more familiar to modern Western ...

But the practice of artificially preserving bodies shows up in archaeological records around the world. Now, a new study ...

What comes to mind when you think of the Sahara Desert? Today, the Sahara is a harsh environment where survival can be ...

Researchers analyzed 54 skeletons from 11 sites, detecting prolonged low-temperature heating and tightly bound 'fetal' postures consistent with deliberate processing before burial.

In 2014, locals near Zimapán, Mexico discovered a mummy in an ancient rock shelter. Scientists believe that the Zimapán man ...

The reconstructions are based on the skulls of four mummified individuals who had masks tightly fitted on their faces.

During the 19th Century the mummified man, known as Pa-Sheri, was taken from Egypt to Britain and has been part of the Derby ...

Scientists have uncovered remarkable details about the gut microbiome of a man who lived in Mexico around 1,000 years ...