What comes to mind when you think of the Sahara Desert? Today, the Sahara is a harsh environment where survival can be ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

Southeast Asian groups mummified bodies over smoky fires before burying them as early as 12,000 years ago, long before Egyptians began making mummies.

But the practice of artificially preserving bodies shows up in archaeological records around the world. Now, a new study ...

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.

The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ...

For more than a century, archaeologists have searched for the legendary Queen Nefertiti, Egypt’s most mysterious ruler. Now, groundbreaking DNA analysis and fresh clues from a hidden tomb deep in the ...

Researchers consider the discovered remains to be mummies because they were deliberately mummified through smoke-drying, even ...

A significant breakthrough came as the BBC documentary ' Tutankhamun: The Truth Uncovered ' presented results from an extensive genetic analysis of royal mummies conducted by Egypt’s Supreme Council ...