Scientists have unearthed what they believe to be the oldest known evidence of human mummification in Southeast Asia. The ...

People in parts of ancient Southeast Asia prepared the dead for burial by smoke-drying the bodies, a practice that went back ...

A new study suggests that the people of ancient southern China and Southeast Asia practiced mummification by curing bodies ...

"smoked mummies" were found in Southeast Asia, rewriting the origins of mummification and revealing a cultural tradition.

On Wednesday, Feb. 26, Gene Hackman was found dead at age 95 in his New Mexico home along with his wife, 64, who was a classical pianist, and one of their pet dogs. According to an affidavit from an ...

Some ancient societies in China and Southeast Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them ...

Archaeologists claim they've found the oldest-known deliberately mummified remains in burial sites across China and ...

Two ancient mummification workshops — one for humans and another for animals — have been discovered at Saqqara in Egypt. The workshops date back around 2,300 years and were in use between the late ...

The oldest evidence of mummification has been discovered in Vietnam, in the form of a single 14,000-year-old mummified arm.

A team of researchers has recreated one of the scents used in the mummification of an important Egyptian woman more than 3500 years ago. In an innovative endeavor to create a sensory bridge to the ...

Gene Hackman’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, reportedly had a bottle of pills next to her when the couple were found dead in their Santa Fe home — but did the medication contribute to her body’s state of ...