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The World's Oldest Mummies Might Be These Smoke-Dried, 12,000-Year-Old Skeletons From Southeast Asia

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The human remains predate Chile's Chinchorro mummies and the famously preserved pharaohs of ancient Egypt by millennia

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According to a study, the incense mummies could be the oldest mummies in the world. The pieces of flesh taken from the dead are striking.

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World, September 17, 2025 (ATB Digital).- A group of international scientists found human mummies of more than 12,000 years in southern China and South-East Asia.This habit of preserving bodies with smoke is much older than the Egyptian one.The research team analyzed 54 burials of people who lived before agriculture. They published their results in the magazine PNAS of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States.The burials appeared in…

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A finding that could rewrite history. Recently, a team of scientists from the National University of Australia discovered that in Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, there had been a series of skeletons buried in shrinking positions and with light traces of burns. Experts soon discovered that it was a custom practiced in certain ancient civilizations in China and Southeast Asia, who dr…

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According to the scientists who participated in the work, it is the most ancient remains that are known in the world

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