The human remains predate Chile's Chinchorro mummies and the famously preserved pharaohs of ancient Egypt by millennia ...

The DuPage County coroner’s office deals with about 6,500 deaths in a year, and identifying the deceased is not easy in some cases.

This year's updated version of The Home Depot's iconic giant skeleton stands 6.5 feet tall and is controlled through a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence suggesting the world’s oldest mummies may have been created in Southeast Asia, dating ...

This finding documents smoke-dried mummification of the dead, mostly in tightly bound crouched postures, from archaeological ...

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The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago.