The world’s oldest man, João Marinho Neto, turned 113 on Oct. 5, 2025. Guinness World Records named him the world's oldest ...

An examination of charring on skeletons showed signs they had been exposed to low heat over long periods of time, which would have dried out and preserved the bodies.

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 ...

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.

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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 new ...

Human bodies carefully preserved by smoking up to 14,000 years ago have been found at archaeological sites in South-East Asia, making them the oldest known mummies in the world. A similar practice ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

The Theopetra Cave in central Greece housed a stone wall, which could be the oldest surviving structure ever found, that was ...