An international research team has extracted genome-wide ancient DNA from two 7,000-year-old mummified women buried in a Libyan rock shelter, identifying a deeply divergent human lineage that appears ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Scientists made a shocking discovery after they revealed that they had unearthed two mummified corpses that, according to the ...

Smoke-drying mummification of human remains was practised by hunter-gatherers across southern China, southeast Asia and beyond as far back as 12,000 years ago, my colleagues and I report in new ...