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Smoke-dried human remains found in Asia may be world's oldest known mummies, researchers say
Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...
Southeast Asian groups mummified bodies over smoky fires before burying them as early as 12,000 years ago, long before Egyptians began making mummies.
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World's oldest mummies were smoke-dried 10,000 years ago in China and Southeast Asia, researchers find
The world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago.
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