The discovery of suspected “alien mummies” in Peru has generated fresh excitement after a lawyer declared that their fingerprints are “not human”. Two of the humanoid figures were unveiled to the ...

LIMA, Peru -- A mummy estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old has been unearthed by archeologists in Peru, at a site near the country's capital city of Lima. Researchers from the National ...

Human remains found in tightly crouched postures at pre-Neolithic burial sites in China and Southeast Asia appear to have ...

Previously, the oldest known mummies were made by the Chinchorro people in Chile and Peru about 7,000 years ago, and the ...

The date for the earliest mummification of human remains has been pushed back thousands of years thanks to new research that solved a nagging question.

Thousands of years older than previous find The findings indicate that mummification practices predated the previously oldest known mummies by the Chinchorro people some 7,000 years ago in modern day ...

Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier ...

The world's oldest mummies found in China and Southeast Asia, 10,000 years ago smoke drying corpses, new research indicates.

A crew of workers accidentally discovered a mummy more than 1,000 years old while installing gas pipes in Peru's capital Lima, their employer and archaeologists said Thursday. The mummy was found last ...

Scientists found that the bodies were likely exposed to heat and suggested they had been smoke-dried over a fire and ...

Lima, a city with over 10 million inhabitants, is home to more than500 archaeological sites - Copyright AFP CONNIE FRANCE Lima, a city with over 10 million ...