Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skeleton of a middle-aged man excavated from the Huiyaotian site in Nanning, in China's Guangxi province, is over 9,000 years ...

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 ...

Highly detailed tattoos on Peruvian mummies were made with “special effort” around 1,200 years ago, likely using cactus needles or sharpened animal bones, archaeologists say. Researchers used laser ...

(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 ...