Scientists have unearthed what they believe to be the oldest known evidence of human mummification in Southeast Asia. The findings, estimated to be around 12,000 years old, set a new record for the ...

One of the most significant finds was uncovered at the Con Co Ngua site in Vietnam, where archaeologists discovered a total of 267 pre-Neolithic burials. The location seems to challenge assertions ...

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.

Researchers consider the discovered remains to be mummies because they were deliberately mummified through smoke-drying, even ...

The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ...

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 ...

They predate Egyptian mummies by around 10,000 years which disprove claims around where mummification started.