The oldest known cremation found in Africa, dating from 9,500 years ago, raises a question: Why were the remains burned in ...

The Chinchorro began mummifying their dead well before the Egyptians immortalized the practice. However, the Chinchorro ...

Mummification can happen in all sorts of ways. It can be slow and steady, or as rapid as a matter of days. It can result in pleasantly scented mummies, bound mummies, potentially hazardous mummies and ...

OKC Thunder's Jalen Williams is playing through a wrist injury that has limited his range of motion. The injury has impacted his shooting, resulting in career-low percentages from the field and from 3 ...

Many associate two popular themes with ancient Egypt: animal worship and mummies. The two have been combined on unprecedented levels deep in the Catacombs of Anubis in North Saqqara. The necropolis of ...

Over 1,000 years ago, an esoteric sect known as Shingon – which combined elements from Buddhism, Old Shinto, Taoism, and other religions – developed a horrifying practice of self-mummification of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Skeletal position of a middle-aged male. Credit: Hsiao-chun Hung et al. / CC BY 4.0 The world’s oldest known mummies have been discovered in Asia, dating back nearly 12,000 years. Researchers say the ...

Mummifying the dead is a funerary rite that has been practiced for thousands of years in many locations across the world. A new discovery reveals that we may have been underestimating exactly how ...