(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 ...

Do mummies belong in museums? The instinctive answer may be “yes,” but that answer might change when you consider what a mummy actually is. A mummy, simply put, is a body that’s unusually well ...

The bodies appeared to have been artificially mummified by “smoke-drying” over fire Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in ...

In a new study, an international research team found that pre-Neolithic people in Southeast Asia were mummifying their died by smoke-drying them. This would make them the oldest human mummies made ...